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LEARNING STYLES

This chart helps you determine your learning style; read the word in the left column and then answer the questions in the successive three columns to see how you respond to each situation. Your answers may fall into all three columns, but one column will likely contain the most answers. The dominant column indicates your primary learning style.

When you.. Visual Auditory Kinaesthetic & Tactile Do you sound out the word Do you write the word down Spell Do you try to see the word? or use a phonetic approach? to find if it feels right?

Do you sparingly but dislike Do you enjoy listening but Do you gesture and use listening for too long? Do you are impatient to talk? Do expressive movements? Do Talk favour words such as see, you use words such as hear, you use words such as feel, picture, and imagine? tune, and think? touch, and hold?

Do you become distracted by Do you become distracted Do you become distracted by Concentrate untidiness or movement? by sounds or noises? activity around you?

Do you forget faces but Do you forget names but Meet someone remember names or Do you remember best what remember faces or remember again remember what you talked you did together? where you met? about?

Do you talk with them while Contact people Do you prefer direct, face-to- Do you prefer the walking or participating in an on business face, personal meetings? telephone? activity?

Do you enjoy dialog and Do you like descriptive scenes or Do you prefer action stories Read conversation or hear the pause to imagine the actions? or are not a keen reader? characters talk?

Do you like to see Do you prefer verbal Do something Do you prefer to jump right in demonstrations, diagrams, instructions or talking about new at work and try it? slides, or posters? it with someone else?

Do you ignore the directions Put something Do you look at the directions and and figure it out as you go together the picture? along?

Need help with a Do you call the help desk, Do you seek out pictures or Do you keep trying to do it or computer ask a neighbour, or growl at diagrams? try it on another computer? application the computer?

Adapted from Colin Rose(1987). Accelerated Learning. Taken from http://www.chaminade.org/INSPIRE/learnstl.htm