Helpful Tips on Learning Styles and Strategies

Many time as teachers or educators we plan lesson but sometimes forget about the different learning styles or different personalities we may have to teach until the lesson is being taught. As educator we need to acknowledge every students learning styles and needs. There are seven major different types of learning styles which are visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social, and solitary. In classroom setting teachers should use conscious step or behaviors used by language learners to enhance the acquisitions, storage, retention, recall, and use of new information. Different learning strategies can be used by language learners: metacognitive techniques for organizing, focusing, and evaluating one’s own learning; affective strategies for handling emotions or attitudes; social strategies for cooperating with others in the learning process; cognitive strategies for linking new information with existing schemata and for analyzing and classifying it; memory strategies for entering new information into memory storage and for retrieving it when needed; and compensation strategies to overcome deficiencies and gaps in one’s current language knowledge.

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