Visual

Learning style

Strategies, resources and competences in English

Introduction:Nowadays people have different ways to learn depending on their abilities. There are three kinds of learning styles: visual, auditory and kinaesthetic. Now we are going to talk about visual style.

VISUAL STYLE DEFINITION:A visual learning style is used by people who have a preference to learn through observed things like outlines, pictures, films, etc.

Characteristics of Visual style:

1. They prefer reading to listening, they learn better when it’s represented visually. They are typically poor listeners.

2. They recognize and remember things such as faces, words faster than people from other learning styles

3. Their handwriting is good because they are meticulous and they like order.

4. In their free time they like to watch films, doodle and stare at something.

5. In class they don’t get involved and don’t pay attention to verbal communication because they are mostly observers and like quite time to see an read or work in the computer.

6. They tend to look around on new situations to examinate and imagine how it might be.

7. When they read they have to imagine the situation so that they can concentrate better and don’t get lost.

8. A negative aspect of a visual learner is that he doesn’t remember what he heard for a long period of time such as names.

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9. Visual learners like professions that involve writing, reading, drawing and painting such as architects, writers, interior designers, etc.

10. They have good visualization skills. For example, they can look up and imagine the information written or drown.

To conclude, if you have all this

characteristics mentioned before

you are a good visual learner.

Montalbà Pérez Bernat

Esther Novials Gomà

Laia Segarra Biosca