Study tips: Kinestetic learners

The learning style

Learning styles is an individual mode of learning and remember information. Each person has its own learning style, some of them are visual learners (they tend to be watchers, they learn best by watching demonstrations or by focusing on the details and components of a new concept, they see to understand) , auditory learners ( they like to talk and sing, whistle and hum, shout their joy or anger, listening to all that life has to offer them and they learns what they hear) and others are kinesthetic learners (they tend to understand things when they're able to handle and examine them). Each learning style has different characteristics and involves different strategies to learn.

Kinesthetic learners

Kinesthetic learners are people who can’t exactly learn the best from just hearing something said or from seeing it, they need to do it. They are often called “tactile” learners, too. They can be found in a range of professions, from dancers to surgeons. These are the type of people who tend to communicate as much with their body language as they do through spoken words.

Useful strategies for kinesthetic learners to improve their skills:

Here are some useful strategies of kinesthetic learners:

1.      A funny way to improve your English and remember your friend's phone numbers is doing both at the same time. Memorize the numbers and write them on a sheet of paper. First, the way you say them in English and then the numeric transcription.

2.      Role playing is a powerful tool for anyone learning a foreign language. For example you can act with a partner and represent that you're in a coffee and talk to each other. The aim of this role play is to communicate with the language using the words you know.

3.      You can search for speeches about films or series on the TV, memorize them and then deliver to some friends or family.

4.      Translating some of our favorite songs into our language is something very useful. We will remember lots of words without having to memorize them.

5.      Having cooking lessons or taking sport in the language we want to learn. This is one way to learn new vocabulary by doing things we like.

6.      In a calendar, instead of write your tasks in your mother language you can write them in English.

Components of the group: Déborah Cortés, Míriam Cuenca and Marta Escamilla.