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1. The Kinesthetic/tactual learner is the one who tries things out, touches, feels, manipulates.
2. These learners express their feelings physically; they jump for joy, push, tug, stomp, pound.
3. Body tension is a good index of the Kinesthetic/tactual student’s emotion.
Learning Modes
Gender
1. Males tend to have a talent for gross body movement, be strong in the visual channel, and have a need to
manipulate their environment. Hyperactive students, 95 percent of whom are male, may have extremely high
kinesthetic/tactual preference.
Classroom Environment
Traits
1. Kinesthetic/tactual learners like o read stories with a lot of action, especially at the beginning.
2. Rarely an avid reader, the kinesthetic/tactual learner may fidget a lot while handling the book.
3. They are often poor spellers, they need to write words down to determine if they “feel” right. Their
handwriting, though possibly good initially, tends to deteriorate as they run out of space on the [paper and
the student exerts more and more pressure on the writing instrument.
Teaching Strategies
Learning Modes
1. Enjoy reading dialogue and plays and dislike lengthy narratives and descriptions.
2. They mover their lips and speak under their breath while reading.
3. Has good auditory word attack skills and uses a phonics approach to spelling.
4. When learning to read, children with an auditory preference gain better silent reading skills when taught in a
phonetic approach rather than a visual one and recall lists of memorized words better when they are
presented orally.
Classroom Environment
1. Respond well to lecture and discussions as well as to tapes, records, or the radio.
2. They benefit from museum field trips in which a lecturer describes the art, for they enjoy hearing and talking
about the art pieces more than seeing them
3. Enjoy musical concerts.
4. There is some evidence of left or right-ear advantages in listening tasks. Students have been shown to
process verbal information more efficiently and accurately when it was presented to the right ear than when
it was presented to the left ear.
1. Nonverbal listening, such as to music or natural sounds, was processed better when presented to the left
ear. If words are heard by both ears at the same time, the listener will report those heard on the right and
ignore those heard on the left. The reverse is true for nonverbal listening.
2. It might be useful for teachers to stand to their student’ right when giving directions and other verbal
information and to the students’ left when a strong nonverbal message is being sent.
Learning Modes
1. They learn by seeing. They have greater immediate recall of words that are presented visually.
2. Visual learners take notes. Remembers faces but forgets names.
3. Unaware of sounds, the visual learner can be distracted by visual disorder or movement.
4. They solve problems deliberately, planning in advance and organizing their thoughts by writing them down.
5. Recognize words by sight, relying ion their configuration for spelling. Like to read descriptions and
narratives. (They stop and stare into space, imagining the scene).
6. Show intense concentration in reading.
7. Enjoy learning from books, looking at pictures, reading from and writing on the board or paper, viewing film
strips, slide shows or movies – anything they can see. Not particularly responsive to music.
8. Prefer visual arts and benefit from field trips to art museums and galleries.
9. They may not express their appreciation vocally, but they are deeply affected by visual displays.
Taken from: “Teaching through Learning Channels, Performance Learning Systems, Inc. Emerson NJ, 1983