NOTEBOOK PRESENTATION

Learning Styles

PRESENTATION

“individual’s natural, habitual, and prefered way(s) of absorbing, processing, and retaining new information and skills’ “

(Lightbrown & Spada, 2013, p. 83)

learning types

learning styles

learning strategies

OVERVIEW LEARNING TYPES

in normal case: mixed form of at least two learning types

mixed forms occur

stigma

2 ADDITIONAL LEARNING TYPES

• sympathetic teacher (needs to be strict and act consistenly at the same time)

• translate information for themselves
• actively express them again
• e.g. vocabulary, dialogues, note-taking (text)

conversational, contact and personal-oriented learner

speaking, writing, drawing, individual-reproducing learner

DISTINCTION COGNITIVE LEARNING STYLES

• seperating details from the general background

• seeing things more holistically (ganzheitlich)

field independent

field dependent

Success and learning styles

• no certified relationship between field independent and success
• difficult to determine whether
• learning styles reflect immutable (unchangable) differences
• or develop through experience --> can be changed

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