What’s Your Learning Style? (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about learning styles.

Learning Style Theory has been around for a while. The idea is that different students learn in different ways and that you can use this information to teach them effectively.

However, the theory doesn’t work. This is because people learn in complex and inconsistent ways, and preferred learning is not the same as effective learning.

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about learning styles!

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Conversation Questions: What’s Your Learning Style?

1. Do you have a preferred way of learning? What is it?

2. How can we measure how people learn best?

3. Do you think the way you learn is consistent?

4. Did you have differentiated learning when you were at school?

5. If learning styles don’t exist, why do many teachers still believe in them?

6. What problems can come from trying to teach using learning style theory?

7. When it comes to learning, what is more important, satisfaction or results?

8. Have you ever noticed a change in the way that you learn?

9. Is using a range of learning methods the best way to study?

10. “The best approach to learning often depends on what you are learning.”

– Tom Wilkinson

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Measure
  • to judge the quality, effect, importance, type, or value of something
• Consistent
  • always behaving or happening in a similar, especially positive, way
• Differentiated
  • using different teaching materials and methods within the same lesson to suit the abilities and needs of different students
• Theory
  • a formal statement of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event, or how something works
• Satisfaction
  • a pleasant feeling that you get when you receive something you wanted, or when you have done something you wanted to do
• Result
  • a positive, good, or successful effect
• Method
  • a particular way of doing something
• Approach
  • a way of considering or doing something

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