Auditory Style
If you have an Auditory style, you like to speak and listen while you learn, with an emphasis on speaking. Sounds play a large part in your learning. Only about 10 to 15 percent of people share this primary sense.
Auditory learners often prefer:
- Listening to lectures and audiotapes.
- Receiving verbal instructions.
- Discussing and debating ideas and issues.
- Reading out loud.
- Talking things through and thinking out loud.
- Listening to music (although may be distracted by sounds).
- Using words in creative ways, such as puns and palindromes.
Learning Online and Your Auditory Style
Because you learn best when you can speak and listen, working silently at a computer may be difficult for you. Other challenges include reading for prolonged periods of time without speaking and following directions that are only written.
Suggestions:
- Read information out loud.
- Talk to yourself while you work.
- Use "chat" and "email" like talking. "Hear" yourself communicating with others.
- Call a friend and tell him or her what you're learning.
- If you need technical help, you may be most comfortable calling tech support and listening to verbal instructions.