Hi language lovers,
But for the purpose of Learning languages, we will be concentrating on only five.
Our different learning types should be nurtured and celebrated, and identifying their characteristics can help us learn better. When people identify the style that suit them best, they tend to stick with it. However, research has shown that the most effective study comes from blending different learning styles together. Everyone has a mix of learning styles and techniques.
There is no right mix. Nor are your styles fixed. You can develop ability in less dominant styles, as well as further develop styles that you already use well even in learning a new language. By recognizing and understanding your own learning styles, you can use techniques better suited to you. This improves the speed and quality of your language learning.
The 5 Different Language learning styles are as follows :
- Physical (kinesthetic): Physical learners prefer and involves using your body, as well as your sense of touch ‘hands’ to learn. Physical language learners learn by doing, touching, moving, building, and are described as a ‘hands-on”. If you find it difficult to sit still for long periods of time, chances are you’re a physical language learner. That is to say that you are also scientific in nature and must interact with objects in order to learn about them.
- Aural (auditory): Aural learners prefer using sound and music. Auditory learners develop understanding and memory by hearing and listening to music in the background. If you find it easier to understand spoken instructions rather than reading them, then aural language learning will benefit you. But it can also be a person who learns best while humming, whistling, toe-tapping, tapping their pencil on the desk or wiggling. For this person, music isn’t a distraction but instead actually helps the language learning process.
- Logical (mathematical): Logical learners prefer using logic, reasoning and systems. They often learn by asking a lot of questions because they want to understand the whole picture. They also tend to understand relationships or patterns, numbers and equations, better than others. They are natural thinkers who learn by classifying, categorizing and thinking abstractly about patterns & relationships etc.
- Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing. Verbal learners practice things like reciting information out loud, writing their own notes and highlighting key points. Having a passion for words, writing, tongue twisters, rhymes, may indicate that this learning style is for you in your quest for language acquisition. For example, a linguistic learner wanted to tackle a skill of learning a new language, their best method of learning would be to read about it, then listen to an audio recording and take notes on it. Finally, concretizing it would require speaking about it and possibly, writing about it extensively.
- Visual (spatial): You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding. someone who can learn best from diagrams, pictures, graphs would be a visual or spatial learner. These people tend to be technically-oriented. Visual learning types do well when they use symbols, boxes, charts, and colors in their notes. If you find you learn language better by reading and looking at pictures, diagrams, and graphs then chances are you’re a visual learner.
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