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Learning Style

This document discusses learning styles and strategies for visual learners. It describes that learning styles are how people process and understand information. The author administered a learning style questionnaire to a participant and determined they were a visual learner based on their answers. For visual learners, the document recommends focusing on visual elements in lectures like gestures, charts, and diagrams. It also suggests formatting notes visually using colors, symbols and diagrams. Overall, the author concludes the participant should focus on a professor's gestures, charts, and copying diagrams to improve their learning as a visual learner.

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Learning Style

This document discusses learning styles and strategies for visual learners. It describes that learning styles are how people process and understand information. The author administered a learning style questionnaire to a participant and determined they were a visual learner based on their answers. For visual learners, the document recommends focusing on visual elements in lectures like gestures, charts, and diagrams. It also suggests formatting notes visually using colors, symbols and diagrams. Overall, the author concludes the participant should focus on a professor's gestures, charts, and copying diagrams to improve their learning as a visual learner.

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Learning Style

Escuadro (2023) stated that learning styles are the various ways in which people learn
and process information. They can impact how your learners understand, retain, and apply new
knowledge. That’s why understanding their learning styles can help improve the learning process
and ultimately lead to better performance. In order to find out the learning style of my
participant, I downloaded a questionnaire from VARK Learn - https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-
questionnaire/. The questionnaire is consisted of 16 multiple choice questions. In the first place, I
handed over the questionnaire to the participants and walked him through the questionnaire.
Then, I asked him to feel free to raise a question in terms of ambiguity if any. I gave him fifteen
minutes to answer the questions. It took him 11 minutes to complete the answers. Next, in order
to make an analysis of the answers, he selected options with visuals, watching, using diagrams,
using maps, working with maps and diagrams, seeing patters and so forth. Similarly, I looked for
similar answers. Therefore, since most of his answers touched the visual multiple choices, I
concluded that he is a visual learner. I believe there are certain strategies and techniques visual
learners can use for getting most out of learning.

Visual learners are attracted to the color, shape, size, and visual contrasts in objects.
When reading or attending a lecture, they can maximize their learning by focusing on the visual
elements available to them. Specifically, I suggest the subsequent techniques for visual learners
to learn better: The professor’s gestures or facial expressions. They will be able to better
remember ideas if they can associate them with a specific movement or look of the professor, so
if they are in a big lecture hall, they are recommended move to the front to better see the speaker.
Graphs and charts are highly effective for visual learners. Visual learners will be able to better
remember concepts through spatial and color representations, so if their lecturer presents ideas in
a chart format, they need to try to copy this rather than writing out all the information in
sentences. How they format their notes matters. For example, using symbols, flow charts,
diagrams or different colors will help them remember the connections between different ideas
when they review them later. PowerPoints, pictures, videos, etc. Students can sometimes zone
out when videos or PowerPoints are turned on, but remember that the visual stimuli in these
media will allow you to better remember the information therein. R.M. Felder and R. Brent
(2016) stated that Visual learners remember best what they see—pictures, diagrams, flow charts,
time lines, films, and demonstrations. Verbal learners get more out of words—written and
spoken explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and
verbally. In addition, visual learners have to try to find diagrams, sketches, schematics,
photographs, flow charts, or any other visual representation of course material that is
predominantly verbal. They have to ask their instructor, consult reference books, and see if any
videotapes or CD-ROM displays of the course material are available. They can also prepare a
concept map by listing key points, enclosing them in boxes or circles, and drawing lines with
arrows between concepts to show connections. Color- code your notes with a highlighter so that
everything relating to one topic is the same color. Philominraj and Jeyabalan (2017) said that
there are several techniques to teach English through pictures. One such technique, that revealed
by research the value of imagery, is mnemonic technique, in which learners are instructed to use
imagery in order to remember items. “Experimental studies have established that such techniques
are highly effective” (Paivio, 1971) and many experiments have provided information on the
precise role of visual memory processes in the effects. These mnemonic techniques and the
processes involved in visual learning are particularly relevant here because they draw on the
learners’ long-term visual memory and thus sustain knowledge.

In conclusion, since the learning style of my participant is visual, I recommend that he


uses the following strategies to learn better. The professor’s gestures or facial expressions. They
will be able to better remember ideas if they can associate them with a specific movement or
look of the professor, so if they are in a big lecture hall, they are recommended move to the front
to better see the speaker. Graphs and charts are highly effective for visual learners. Visual
learners will be able to better remember concepts through spatial and color representations, so if
their lecturer presents ideas in a chart format, they need to try to copy this rather than writing out
all the information in sentences.
References:

R.M. Felder and R. Brent, Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass (2016), pp. 187–188. <educationdesignsinc.com/book/>.

Philominraj, A and Jeyabalan, D (2017). English Language Teaching; Vol. 10, No. 3; 2017
ISSN 1916-4742 E-ISSN 1916-475 Published by Canadian Center of Science and
Education.

Escuadro, S. (2023). Learning Styles: Why They’re Important in Learning and Development.
Retrieved from: https://www.edapp.com/blog/why-learning-styles-are-important/

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