October 3, 2009

What type of learner am I?

Everybody has their own method of learning.
It seems to me that knowing my learning style (or language learning style) would be beneficial to me. It is in my own interest (it actually is in everyone's interest) to know what works best for me so I won't be wasting time trying to learn something in a way that doesn't suit me.

There are three learning styles: visual, auditory and kinaesthetic.

I'm actually wondering what type of learner I am. I thought this would be easy to guess as per my methods of learning, but I find myself stuck in terms of ideas.
I may be a bit of each, as I need to hear, see and do things to remember them best.
I have a really bad memory anyway! But now I wonder if this is because I don't use the right methods to learn.

I have searched the web for efficient tests and came accross two articles (yes, wandering around, the web is so distracting!) that could be useful in terms of tips and learning suggestions for different learning styles: http://www.newkerala.com/self-help/Articles/That-Type-of-Learner-Are-You.html and http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/learningstyle.html (I found this one particularly interesting), and it seems to me (now that I've read the articles) that I am more visual and auditory.

So here I am, about to start a test I've just found on About.com (good website I use for my language learning and language teaching):
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/lstyleqz.htm
I don't know if it is a good one, as it is free, but I know the website and think it is quite serious so I'm gonna give it a go...
Test finished! There were 9 questions. I didn't know what to answer to 3 or 4 of them (I had no clue of what works best for me), but I tried my best!

And the result is "You are a very visual learner", which is quite surprising, as I thought I didn't have a particular learning style... Should I do another test? I'll do another one later, just to make sure this one was accurate... If it is, I'll probably change my learning method...


Ok, second test done (on YouThink.com)... same result. So I guess that I actually am a visual learner...

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