Language learning styles
(Visual learners)
“ If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn” Ignacio Estrada
Talking about the concept of “teaching” leading us unconsciously to talk about the concept of “ learning” and vice versa. In general, learning and teaching associated with each other. The high achievements of one of these cognitive operations means the success to another. On the other hand, the failure of one of them implies the fall of the other one. Successful and effective teacher, who concentrate on two essential matters. First, teachers should learn about the principles of learning and teaching to know how to teach. However, One of the most substantial affairs is learning styles and strategies.
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Each one pursuant to the most effective learning style for him\her. In fact, all learning styles are overlapping in each person, but some of them drown out the others differently. In other words. Each person owns some learning styles dominate the others. Each one of us has a way in learning which he/she preferred and aided him/her to overshoot tasks successfully. Furthermore, learning styles differentiate from one circumstance to another with the same person. No one has a fixed style of learning-the golden rule- According to (http://esl.fis.edu/parents/advice/styles.htm), language researchers have parted learning styles in different classes. Some of those researchers categorized them as perceptual styles. Including, the visual, the tactile and kinesthetic, and the auditory. Others have focused on cognitive styles and identified field-independent and field-dependent learners. According to the same website, 8 types of learners depend on learning styles are: Visual learners, Auditory learners, Tactile learners, Kinesthetic learners, Field-independent learners, Field-dependent learners, Reflective learners, …show more content…
This must encourage you to use this ability in the best way. How? First step: reading more about this style. Second step: learning from other's experience. Third step: when you go to the library try to choose carefully books consist of pictures. For instance, There is a great book for visual children entitled vocabulary cartoons help them memorize words in a few minutes and never forget because it is full of pictures. It looks like a story book. Also, In the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People With Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties, Computer Images and the Ironies of Creativity. This book also helps those people who are using non-traditional way in learning to improve their level and provides answers of how computers contribute in visual learning style. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Learning a second language is a long and hard journey. The strong car which will help you in this journey is your knowledge of who you are as a learner. To know if you are a visual learner or not. Ask yourself these questions: Do I prefer pictures in studying? Do I achieve inferior results in tasks which is relying on listening? Do I tend to draw the words which I try to memorize? For example, when I was in high school I remember myself when I was drawing the tips of any process in my materials to facilitate me memorizing in the exam and I was relying on mind maps in my
This paper is intended to focus on the importance of a teaching methodology, content and philosophy of teaching and learning for an effective and fruitful student-teacher relationship.
Visual learning means that you need to observe it to be able to learn in a way that features an object about the assignment. I have always loved reading and learning about something in school. Of course, there are days where you wish to not learn anything that day, but reading has always been fun and that is one of the main learning styles I use. In school a
Education is about in-parting knowledge based on one’s belief, truth and justification with the purpose of surviving in this changing world. Highly educated people are well recognized and given high reputation in the society. Hence, teaching is a process of sharing information between the teacher and students in a positive, caring, changing and stress free environment where new knowledge must be constructed and tested through student – teacher interaction using different strategies so that children could master knowledge and skills of desired fields including values, ethics, and other social knowledge. To fulfill this purpose, teachers should be active, forward thinking, energetic, knowledgeable, sincere and punctual for changing one’s truth, belief and justification. To satisfy these educational needs, learning should be a fun mechanism for students in which they enjoy by responding, interacting,
As soon as I read this quote I could not help but apply it to my teaching career. I do not believe that our students are empty vessels waiting to be filled with information and knowledge -rather students are partially-filled vessels with a wealth of experience, knowledge and preconceptions. My role as an educator, rather than as a teacher, is to engage the students to tap into this knowledge and challenge them, in order to further build on what they already know. I believe that the educational system should be tailored for each and every student according to their needs in order to bring out their full potential.
First, the learning style Visual. The visual learning style is compiled of many ways a visual learner could learn/understand the content being shown/taught. The ways that a visual learner learns best is by observing things, such as pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flip-charts, and pretty much anything that they can look at. Visual learners may also use words/phrases such as
The concept of teaching has “no ‘real’ definition, but instead it has uses” (Horton qtd. In Mauk and Metz 129). Teaching is more than just teachers educating their students. Teachers help enrich their students’ lives, so they can succeed in life. They are the building blocks for every student’s success in their life. Educators show a wide variety of characteristics, which help them to teach and get their point across.
Without realizing it, I learned about what a visual learner is and methods I used in school to make sense of the knowledge I obtained. According to Judie Haynes (2009), a visual learner is able to learn best by seeing or observing and includes examples of using computer graphics, cartoons, posters, diagrams, graphic organizers, text with pictures, and maps. Pictures are essential to children’s
Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve oneself.
In this course I experienced an important change in my beliefs about teaching; I came to understand that there are many different theories and methods that can be tailored to suit the teacher and the needs of the student. The readings, especially those from Lyons, G., Ford, M., & Arthur-Kelly, M. (2011), Groundwater-Smith, S., Ewing, R., & Le Cornu, R. (2007), and Whitton, D., Barker, K., Nosworthy, M., Sinclair, C., Nanlohy, P. (2010), have helped me to understand this in particular. In composing my essay about teaching methods and other themes, my learning was solidified, my knowledge deepened by my research and my writing skills honed.
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as every child should be instilled with the wish to learn."
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expressions and knowledge.” “Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
“Teaching is often a difficult process, but the end result is very rewarding. Watching a child develop confidence and seeing a student progress in their studies is a very exciting process. Teaching young children is especially great because it is setting a foundation for life-long learning.”(Chronicle guidance publications). What is teaching? A teacher is a person who provides education for pupils (children), or students (adults) using lectures, audiovisual aids, demonstrations, and computers to present academic, social, and motor skills. Teachers can also teach foreign languages, art, kids with special needs, and P.E. Teaching has changed a lot compared to the traditional methods of just lectures and textbooks. Students now are encouraged to actively learn through groups or individual projects. They have learning games, debates, and experiments to help them through the learning process. Being a teacher would be a great career for anyone who wants to further themselves, to help people, and to have great benefits (chronicle guidance publications).
In order for learning to take place in the classroom the teacher has to put in place an effective teaching and learning strategy. Being an effective teacher is not something that can be achieved instantaneously but rather something that has to be continuously developed and improved upon over time. Petty mentions how good teachers are not born but rather make themselves and that effective teaching comes from learning from your mistakes and successes. Petty, p. 516, 2009. This process involves teacher reflection and assessment of the effectiveness of different teaching strategies used in the classroom. It is only then that teachers can learn and advance themselves.
Thought out our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. This can be attributed to everyone’s different multiple intelligences or learning styles. A persons learning style is the method though which they gain information about their environment. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to know these styles, so we can reach each of our students and use all of the necessary methods.
In my view, the primary purpose of teaching is to help students become independent lifelong learners who are able and willing to find resources to continue learning beyond the classroom. This is especially relevant for second language learning, which requires perseverance and is unlikely to be successful when confined to the classroom. Several hours per week are certainly not enough to start communicating effectively in the second language. That is why, as a language teacher, I encourage students to become autonomous by exploring their needs and wants, empowering them, and showing them ways to maximize their learning opportunities.