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Know Your Own Learning Style

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Your Studying Should Follow Your Learning Style

Written by kwi-kil, Choi

Learner Styles

Different learning styles imply differences in a learner’s learning process. The learning style a learner prefers shows a great deal about the learner’s cognitive processing, reasoning, and learning sensory styles.

Cognitive style is the way a person observes and recognizes the objects and data. There are two major cognitive styles: sequential and simultaneous. When a person recognizes the world sequentially, the person’s understanding is formed by observing parts of the whole in sequence and the whole is eventually understood. For a sequential thinker, data is processed logically. A learner of this category is likely to have a left-hemisphere-dominant-brain. On the other hand, a simultaneous thinker’s understanding comes from looking at the whole first, then its parts are observed afterwards. A person in this category tends to have a right-hemisphere-dominant-brain.

Thought-processing style (Kolb, Harb, and Butler) divides thoughts into abstract and concrete ones. An abstract thinker thinks creatively and likes to make links among what the thinker already knows. Then the thinker likes to predict the future. People who fit in this category are firm believers of their principles but soft in details. They tend to daydream frequently. A concrete thinker, the opposite type, believes in empirical data and logic when making sense of the world. A concrete thinker is precise and systematic, but can be too rigid because empirical data and logic are in control even in fine details.

Learning sensory style (Kenneth Dunn, Lynne Celli Sarasn) are the preferred sense in a learning process, which are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile. Learning styles are not mutually exclusive and the majority of people are visual learners. For example in America, 60% of the population are thought to be visual learners.
, Auditory learners process audio information well, and they like to explain what they know orally. Learning speed tends to be slow since turning ideas into spoken words takes time, but these learners are very attentive when learning. Auditory learners avoid loud and meaningless noises, and take the lyrics than the melody of a song more important because of their keen auditory sense. Fifteen percent of the US population are thought to be auditory learners.:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"

Kinesthetic sense is actually kinesthetic and tactile senses. Kinesthetic learners can successfully take information from body movements. Tactile learners are sensitive to minute body movements such as small hand gestures. Since this type of learners like to move their own bodies, it is hard for them to sit at a desk for many hours or pay attention in a long class. What’s interesting is that they are good at doing multiple activities at the same time. They could read books while listening to music or watching TV. 25% of American population are in this category.