Your sensory preference and language learning

In planning and carrying out your language learning program, you can use your sensory preference to choose learning activities that will work best for you.

• Tips for tactile or action learners
• Tips for auditory learners
• Tips for visual learners

Here are some guidelines to follow when you use your sensory preferences for language learning:

• Some of the language skills you need to develop will not match your sensory preference. Regardless of your preference, you must use auditory skills to develop listening comprehension, and visual skills to learn to read.
• Your sensory preference can aid you to learn a skill based on another sense. It must, however, serve as a bridge to the skill you need rather than a substitute for it. The danger is that you may rely on skills based on your sensory preference and you may neglect other skills you really need.
• Many language educators believe that the best learning environment is one in which all the senses are involved. You will have difficulty if you try to build your language learning only on your sensory preference.

• Implications of your learning style for language learning

• Overview module: Your sensory preference and language learning
• In overview module: Implications of your learning style for language l...
• In modular book: Your Learning Style and Language Learning, by Clay Johnston and Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 15 September 1998

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