This document discusses different learning styles and multiple intelligences. It identifies three main learning styles - visual, auditory, and tactile/kinesthetic. Visual learners learn through seeing, auditory learners learn through listening, and tactile/kinesthetic learners learn through moving, doing, and touching. It also discusses seven types of multiple intelligences - visual/spatial, verbal, logical/mathematical, bodily/kinesthetic, musical, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. For each type of intelligence, it provides examples of relevant skills and potential career paths. The document aims to help readers understand how they learn best.
1. National Institute of
Business
Department of English
Learning Styles
Lecturer: Mrs. HOU SAOMOLINE
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KEN THEARITH
SREY KALYAN
HORT CHHUN Y
SIN SREYNEANG
POEUN POM
KHIN SREYNAK
2. Learning Styles
Learning styles are simply different approaches
or ways of learning. Once you figure out the way
you learn, you will know what strategies to use
to fit your learning.
3. Learning Styles
There are 3 types of learning styles.
Visual
Auditory
Tactile/Kinesthetic
Can you identify each style?
4. 1. Visual Learners:
• learn through seeing...
• need to see the teacher's body language
and facial expression to understand.
• prefer sitting at the front
• during a lecture or discussion, visual
learners often take detailed notes.
5. Characteristics of a Visual Learner:
• Reader/observer
• Scans everything; wants to see things, enjoys visual stimulation
• Enjoys maps, pictures, diagrams, and color
• Not pleased with lectures
• Daydreams; a word, sound or smell causes recall and mental
wandering
• Usually takes detailed notes
• May think in pictures and learn best from visual displays
6. 2. Auditory Learners:
• learn through listening...
• learn best through verbal lectures,
discussions, talking things through
and listening to what others have to
say
• written information may have little
meaning until it is heard.
• benefit from reading text aloud and
using a tape recorder.
7. Characteristics of an Auditory Learner:
• Interpret the underlying meanings of speech through
listening to tone of voice, pitch, speed and other nuances
• Prefers directions given orally
• Seldom takes notes or writes things down
• Prefers lectures to reading assignments
• Often repeats what has just been said; talks to self
8. 3. Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners:
• learn through , moving, doing and
touching...
• learn best through a hands-on
activities and exploring the physical
world around them.
• They may find it hard to sit still for
long periods and may become
distracted by their need
for activity and exploration.
9. Characteristics of a Tactile/Kinesthetic
Learner:
• Needs to touch, handle, manipulate materials and
objects, especially while studying or listening
• Counts on fingers and talks with hands
• Good at drawing designs
• Often doodles while listening, thus processing information
• Good at sports, mechanics, using appliances and tools
• Often adventurous
• May find it hard to sit still for long periods
• May become distracted by their need for activity and exploration
10. There is another way we learn. It
has more options and will be a
better way for you to tell how
you learn
12. 1. Visual/Spatial Learners
• Ability to see the visual. These people think in
pictures and creating pictures in their head to
help them remember information. Sometimes
they enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures,
videos, and movies.
13. 1.1. Their Skills Include
• puzzle
building, reading, writin
g, understanding charts
and graphs, a good sense
of
direction, sketching, pai
nting, creating visual
metaphors and analogies
(perhaps through the
visual
arts), manipulating
images, constructing, fixi
ng, designing practical
objects, interpreting
visual images.
15. 2. Verbal Learning
• They use words and language. These
learners have good hearing skills and
normally are good at talking/speaking. They
think in words rather than pictures.
16. 2.1. Their Skills Include
• listening, speaking, w
riting, storytelling, ex
plaining, teaching, us
ing
humor, understandin
g the meaning of
words, remember
information, and can
convince someone to
see their point of
view.
17. 2.2. Possible Career Interests
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Poet
Journalist
writer
teacher
lawyer
politician
translator
18. 3. Logical/Mathematical
Learning
• Have the ability to use reason, logic (common
sense) and numbers. These people think in
patterns making connections between pieces of
information. They are curious about the world
around them, ask lots of questions, and like to
do experiments.
19. 3.1. Their Skills Include
• problem solving,
classifying and
categorizing
information, working to
figure out the
relationship of objects to
each other, doing
controlled experiments,
questioning and
wondering about natural
events, performing
complex mathematical
calculations, working
with geometric shapes
20. 3.2. Possible Career Paths
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Scientists
engineers
computer programmers
researchers
accountants
mathematicians
21. 4. Bodily/Kinesthetic Learning
• ability to control body
movements and handle
objects well. Try to do
things that involve
movement. They have a
good sense of balance
and eye-hand coordination. (e.g. ball
play, balancing beams).
Through interacting
with the space around
them, they are able to
remember and process
information (hands-on).
22. 4.1. Their Skills Include
• dancing, sports,
hands on
experimentation,
using body language,
crafts, acting,
miming, using their
hands to create or
build, expressing
emotions through the
body
23. 4.2. Possible Career Paths
• Athletes
• physical education
teachers
• dancers
• actors
• firefighters
• artisans
24. 5. Musical Learners
• Can make and appreciate music. These
learners think in sounds, rhythms and patterns.
They immediately respond to music either
appreciating or criticizing what they hear.
Many of these learners are extremely sensitive
to environmental sounds (e.g.
crickets, bells, dripping taps).
25. 5.1. Their Skills Include
• singing, whistling, pl
aying musical
instruments, recogniz
ing tonal
patterns, composing
music, remembering
melodies, understand
ing the structure and
rhythm of music
27. 6. Intrapersonal Learning
• Can relate and understand
others. These people try to see
things from other people's
point of view in order to
understand how they think and
feel. They often have a strange
ability to sense feelings,
intentions and motivations.
They are great organizers.
They try to keep peace ingroup settings and want
cooperation. The use of verbal
(speaking) and non-verbal
language (eye contact, body
language) is used often
28. 6.1. Their Skills Include
• seeing things from other
perspectives, listening,
feeling bad for others in
bad situations,
understanding other
people's moods and
feelings, counseling,
cooperating with groups,
noticing people's moods,
communicating both
verbally and nonverbally, building trust,
conflict resolution,
create good relationships
with others.
29. 6.2. Possible Career Paths
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Counselor
salesperson,
politician
business person
30. 7. Interpersonal Learners
• These people reflect on their actions and know
themselves very well. These learners try to
understand their own feelings, dreams,
relationships with others, and strengths and
weaknesses.
31. 7.1. Their Skills Include
• Recognizing their own
strengths and
weaknesses, reflecting on
and studying themselves,
have awareness of their
feelings, desires and
dreams, evaluate their
thinking patterns,
understanding their role
in relationship to others