LEARNING STYLE IN TLP
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What is my learning style?
This is the question that everyone has to ask themselves.
Some authors have been writing about three types of learning styles. They are auditory, visual and kinesthetic. The auditory style refers to people who can learn listening music, radio, among others. The visual style refers to those who can learn from reading, and observing pictures, diagrams, graphics, among others. There are people who are kinesthetic and they need to perform physical activities that require movement or contact with others because they learn through the touch.
In the teaching-learning processes (TLP) we can notice the difficulty of the students to learn. The professors need to improve their classes TLP also sometimes need different types of equipment available in the classroom to reinforce knowledge acquisition. There are many aids available these days such as audio, visual and audio-visual. They have great importance in TLP.
The visual style helps to establish the relationship between different ideas and concepts. The abstraction and planning capacity are directly related with to the visual retention.
The auditory style memorizes the information received. The auditory learners feel better when receiving oral explanations and they can talk and explain the information to others. The auditory style is essential in the languages learning and of course in the music learning too.
The kinesthetic style associates the information with movement and sensations. Once you learn something with the muscle memory, you never forget it.
The learning style’s topic is emphasized because it helps teachers and students to identify which type of learning style is more proper for teaching-learning process. The students have different ways to learn they learn through the aforementioned aids.
According to Njoku (1980) Meaningful learning is the goal of education in that the learners should be able to retain what is taught.
Further to Dike (1989) audiovisual resources do not only increase the motivation of the teachers and learners; they add clarity to the topic taught and make learning more interesting.
Also Ode and Omokaro (2007) revealed that learners retain most of what they hear, see and feel than what they merely hear.
It means that the best way for remembering information for a long term is combining pictures with sounds and which leads us to audiovisual resources. Telling and showing are more effective than only telling or only showing.
Some advantages of using audiovisual aids are: to increase the effectiveness of the teaching, to hold the attention span of the learner for the duration of instruction, to save time and to use all the relevant information available from different sources and making learning experiences longer.
