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What is a learning style?

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• 2. Person
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al Benefits ts

• Increases your self-confidence.
• Teaches you which side of your

brain to use.

• Gives you insight into your

strengths, weaknesses and habits.

• Helps you enjoy any learning

process.

• Inspires greater curiosity,

motivation for lifelong learning.

• Shows you how to take

advantage of your natural skills and inclinations.

As individual we are unique learners since we learns according to how we process information the easiest. Some of these ways s include de:

• 3. Professi

sion

• nal

al

• Enables you to stay up-to-

date professionally.

• Gives you an edge over your

competitors.

• Allows you to manage teams

more effectively.

• Guides you in delivering

successful presentations to different audiences.

• Improves your persuasive

and sales skills.

• Helps you improve co-
• peration among colleagues.
• Translates learning power

into earning power.

• 1. Academic Benefits

ts

• Helps you succeed in school,

college or university.

• Teaches you to pass tests and

exams

• Makes you progress at your own

pace.

• Overcome the limitations of poor

instructors.

• Reduces stress and frustration of

now understanding ‘how to learn’.

• Expands your existing learning

and studying strategies.

A common and widely-used model of learning style is Fleming’s (2001). According to this model, most people possess a dominant or preferred learning style; however some people have a mixed and evenly balanced blend of the three styles:

• 1. Visual
• 2. Auditory
• 3. Kinaesthetic

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 Learn through seeing and reading  They learn best with illustrations,

pictures, photos, graphs diagrams and maps.

 Pay more attention to gestures.

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 Think in pictures and need to

create vivid mental images to retain information.

 Have visual skills that are

demonstrated through puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs; they usually have a good sense of artistic direction; sketching, painting etc.

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 Learn through listening.  Have highly developed auditory skills and are generally good at

speaking and presenting.

 They hear better than what they see.  Auditory learners understand best if they can hear and see their

assignment by text or instructions.

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 Prefer to listen to instructions.  Think in words rather than pictures.  Learn best through verbal lectures,

discussions and listening to what

• thers have to say.

 Have auditory skills shown in

listening, speaking, writing, storytelling, explaining, teaching, using humour, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, remembering information, arguing their point of view, and analysing language usage.

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 Learn through moving, doing and touching.  Express themselves through movement.  Have good sense of balance and eye-hand coordination  Remember by hands on movement.  They learn their assignment best by using physical activity

and experiencing it.

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 Use their hands to create, build, draw or decorate.  Remember and process information through interacting with the

space around them.

 Usually find it hard to sit still for long periods and may become

distracted by their need for activity and exploration.

 Have skills demonstrated in physical co-ordination, athletic ability,

hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build, dancing, and expressing emotions through the body.

Kolb describes two dimensions, perceiving and processing.

 On both ends of the learning spectrum are abstract

perceptions and concrete thinking dimensions.

 At the end of processing is doing(active) and watching(

reflective) dimension.

These dimensions conclude that four types of learners can be identified:

• 1. DIVERGERS- perceive information concretely and process it reflectively

(needing to be personally involved in the task)

• 2. CONVERGERS- perceive information abstractly and process it reflectively

(taking detailed, sequential steps)

• 3. ASSIMILATORS- perceive information abstractly and process it actively

(needing it to be set practical problem solving activities)

• 4. ACCOMODATORS- perceive information concretely and process it actively

(takings risks, experimenting and needing flexibility in learning) Kolb then developed this notion of experimental learning as a cyclical sequence through the four areas of learning modes. His idea was that typical learners should experience all of the four stages in the cycle, in addition to their own preferred one that leads to increased learning strategies. (Burton and Bartlett, 2012.p 237)

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Burton, D. and Bartlett, S. (2012) Introduction to Education Studies. 3rd edn. United Kingdom: Sage publications ltd.

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Slankard, S. (2013) What’s Your Learning Style?, YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf7S9BRJ8nk (Accessed: 2 March 2015).

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