What Kind of Learner Are You?



Links for Students...

Everyone learns differently. Some of us learn best if we see new information, others if we hear or touch it.  The following websites will help you evaluate what kind of learner you are. When you know your "learning style", you are better able to choose learning strategies which capitalize on your strengths (or help you overcome your weaknesses!

How to Discover Your Learning Style and Create a Learning Style Profile
Four Approaches to Language Learning Based on Learning Style


The first link leads you to a comprehensive series of inventories (questionnaires), specifically designed to help you determine what kind of language learner you are.  The second link offers four approaches to language learning based on your learning style.


Learning Styles Evaluation
This webpage contains five very useful principles of learning. Read them and see how you can apply them to your ELP experience. Everyone has a "learning preference"; take a simple, online test to determine yours.

Language Learning Strategies
This page contains a l-o-o-o-n-g list of tips for becoming a more effective foreign language learner. Find some that look interesting and try them!

Learning Styles and Strategies
More ways to evaluate your own learning, and then, some thoughts on how to make the most of your classroom experience.

Vocabulary Learning Strategies
Helpful Listening Strategies
Comprehensive lists of strategies you can use to learn and retain new vocabulary, and improve your conversational ability.

Multiple Intelligences Explained
Multiple Intelligence Inventory
Seven Styles of Learning
Psychologist Howard Gardener suggests that humans have seven types of "intelligence". Typically, schools focus on linguistic or mathematical intelligence; students whose dominant intelligence is in another area may be labelled "poor learners".  You can read about Multiple intelligences here, then take  an online test to determine your "intelligence profile".
 

And for Teachers...

Learning Strategies
This page from the Theory Into Practice website summarizes information on the psychology of learning, and suggests how anyone can become a better learner.

Teaching and Learning Strategies
Some very usable suggestions on how to engage students in active learning through a variety of in-class activities.

Second Language Learning Styles and Strategies
An ERIC minibibliography listing a number of articles and documents on Second Language Learning Styles and Strategies.

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This page prepared by:
Cliff Stevens
English Language Program
UC Berkeley Extension

Last updated on 9/8/01