Learning Styles

Learning style is the way to absorb and assimilate information. People have different learning styles depending on how their brains work during learning. Four different learning styles are identified among learners -- the visual, auditory, read/write and kinesthetic styles. Each of these styles has advantages and disadvantages, which you should know so that you can recognize the most suitable styles for specific subjects or situations.

People who learn best through visual aids have a visual learning style. Visual aids include facial expressions and gesticulations of teachers, pictures, texts with illustrations, video, etc. Visual learners think and learn in pictures. This style of learning has an important advantage, recollection of the information is made easier. However, a disadvantage of the visual learning style is the difficulty when only texts and speeches are available for learning, without any visual aids.

Some people prefer to learn by hearing. Theirs is the auditory learning style. Such people will prefer listening to discussions, talking over, reading out of texts or audio recordings. One special advantage of this style is that you assimilate and retain information without seeing it in texts or pictures. However, the difficulty of learning among silently reading learners -- in a library for example -- is one disadvantage.

If you learn best by reading texts or writing down notes from what you read, see or hear, then you are a read/write learner. Read/write learners need writing materials to take down important points. The read/write style has the advantage of making them more self-dependent because with their note taking, they can learn much by themselves. However, they face the disadvantage of not being able to learn easily when the only medium of instruction is visual or audio, or when they do not have access to writing materials.

Kinesthetic learners prefer to learn by moving and doing. They prefer interactive learning, learning through hands-on experience and taking in information as they move from one place to another. Kinesthetic learners are therefore not comfortable sitting in a place for long. The kinesthetic learning style has the advantage of exposing learners faster to practice: You learn as you practice and practice what you learn. However, where there are no places to move to for such live experience and nobody to interact with, you are at a disadvantage.

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1) What is disadvantage of visual learning style?

2) How do kinesthetic learners learn?

3) What learner are you? Why do you think so?

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