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Lexis. Reading. Educationaljargonschs.wikispaces.com/file/view/learning-styles.pdf/199591632/learning-styles.pdf. 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner. For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation.

Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to <a href=">cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is. Visual Learners Visual learners learn through seeing and retain more information when it's presented in the form of pictures, diagrams, visual presentations, textbooks, handouts and videos.

Auditory Learners Auditory learners do best in classes where listening is a main concern. Kinesthetic Learners Kinesthetic learners do best when they interact and touch things. The Natural Approach (Krashen) Multiple Intelligences. Looking for Strategies and Activities? Click Here! What are Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (MI)? In 1983, Dr. Howard Gardner proposed that traditional intelligence as measured by IQ tests was not broad enough to account for different kinds of learning. Building on this hypothesis Gardner introduced his theory of Multiple Intelligences that outlined a range of abilities based on different types of intelligence. Gardner emphasized that people possess a mix of the Intelligences and are not ruled by only one type of intelligence.

Linguistic: learning by using language Logical-Mathematical: learning by using logic, rational thinking Spatial-Visual: learning through seeing and imagining Bodily-Kinesthetic: learning through movement and touch Musical: learning through rhythm and music Interpersonal: learning through social contact Intrapersonal: learning through reflection, on one’s own back to top How do the MI apply to planning and classroom activities? Let's look at an example scenario:

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Survey instruments for attitude. On-line & Off-line Survey Instruments: Motivation, Cognitive Styles, Learning Styles, and Learning Strategies This collection is intended as a brief guide to the world of motivation, cognitive-style, learning-style, and learning-strategy questionnaires. The first section of this bibliography is a list of websites which offers survey instruments related to motivation, learning preferences, and learning strategies. These consist of two kinds of sites: interactive sites allow users to take the tests on-line and provide some information about the tests, however, they usually do not provide scoring algorithms.

Source sites permit visitors to download and print ready-to-use tests. These sites vary as to the amount of information provided. In the second section, a collection of instruments not available on the web is provided. This bibliography is meant to provide teachers and researchers with a way to familiarize themselves with some of the instruments available.

Personality Tests Motivation. Principles of Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Download a PDF of this digest. Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers do not agree how instruction can best facilitate language learning. Given this lack of consensus, it might be thought unwise to attempt to formulate a set of general principles for instructed language acquisition. However, if SLA is to offer teachers guidance, there is a need to proffer advice, providing that it is offered in the spirit of what Stenhouse (1975) called “provisional specifications.” The principles described in this digest, therefore, are intended to provide teachers with a basis for argument and for reflection and not as a set of prescriptions or proscriptions about how to teach. They are designed to be general in nature and therefore relevant to teachers in a variety of settings, including foreign and second language situations and content-based classrooms.

Principle 1: Instruction needs to ensure that learners develop both a rich repertoire of formulaic expressions and a rule-based competence. StephenKrashenscomprehensibleinput.flv. VYGOTSKY'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION ( DAVIDSON FILMS ) Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition.