Auditory or Visual Learners
A type of learner who learns effectively by listening (auditory) or seeing (visual). An auditory learners prefers to listen to lectures compared to reading lecture notes.
Applied or Conceptual Learners
If you are an applied learner, you prefer tasks that involve real objects and situations. Therefore, practical, authentic, real-life instances are perfect for you. If you are a conceptual learner, you prefer to work with language and ideas. You also tend to rely less on practical applications for understanding than applied learners.
Spatial or Verbal Learners
Spatial learners can visualize or mentally "see" how things work or how they are positioned in space. Their strengths may include drawing, assembling, or repairing things. Verbal or non spatial learners lack skills in positioning things in space. Instead, they rely on verbal or language skills.
Social or Independent Learners
If you are a social learner, you prefer to work with others, closely and directly. You tend to be people-oriented and enjoy personal interaction. If you are an independent leaner, you tend to be self-directed or self-motivated as well as goal-oriented.
Creative or Pragmatic Learners
Creative learners are imaginative and innovative. They prefer to learn through discovery or experimentation. They are comfortable taking risks and following hunches. Pragmatic learners are practical, logical, and systematic. They seek order and are comfortable following rules.
So, which combination of types of learners define your learning styles?
(Source adapted from McWhorter K.T, 2004 Academic Reading, 5th Edition, Pearson Longman, New York)
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I think I am pragmatic and auditory leaner. It is because I would rather prefer to do a task by following the lecturers' instruction.Basicaly, I like to do my task systematically.As a auditory learner, I would remember the thing that the other tell me than the thing I see by myself.
Tze Fair: Thanks for the reflective comment on learning styles!
As a student,I think the informations about the differ study styles are useful for us to identify our real way of studying,to change the ways of studying which do not suit us as well as to improve ourselves in learning.Actually,learning is a lifelong process and therefore right study styles will help us a lot in our journey of learning.I think that I'm a pragmatic learner as I understand the important of following instructions.I also find that I'm an auditory learner most of the time but sometime I need to refer for the text to understand a topic better.
Kian Lee: Knowing your own learning styles does help in improving your learning patterns as well as learning efficieny. :-)
Hello Ms Angel.
I am more of the conceptual learner and I like to play around with ideas and come up with non-conventional ways to solve problems. I am therefore looking forward to the project . I enjoyed the introductory lesson . The website idea was a mastermind. I am loving it!
HI Betsy!
Thanks for the inspiring comment. Discovering one's learning styles is indeed a good start for most of us this semester! By the way, "I'm loving it" sounds like a fast food commercial slogan to me! Anyway, glad to have you in my class.
Hello Ms Angel.
I want to talk about how I learn swimming. When I was so young, I could not swim, because nobody taught me. But every holiday,I always went to the swimming pool. My aunt thought that if you just play games in the water and can't swim, it is so bored. So she decided to teach me how to swim. In one of my holidays, my aunt brought me to go to the swimming pool every week. She let me go to the deep water,then kept a little distance between us. She ordered me to swim. When I was swimming, I was so scared and drank a lot of water in the swimming pool. However, after the holiday, I can swim. Furthermore, I am good at swimming now.
Minnie: The plus now is that you can swim well!
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