This document discusses different learning styles - visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Visual learners, who make up 65% of the population, learn best when they can see information through pictures, diagrams, displays, and handouts. They benefit from supplemental materials to accompany lectures. The document provides characteristics and advantages and disadvantages of visual learning. It offers tips for how visual learners can help themselves, such as finding visual representations of concepts and using concept maps and color in note-taking.

1. Iris Palomares Margarit
Ivet Sentañes Gabarroca
Mònica Ros Ortega

2. “Style”
The term “style” refers to each person who learns in a
different way, using different strategies even though
they have the same motivations as the other learning
styles.

3. LEARNING STYLES
 VISUAL learners
make up
approximately 65
percent of the
population.
 AUDITORY learners
represent only 30
percent of the
population.
 KINESTHETIC
learners represent the
remaining 5 percent of
the population

4. VISUAL LEARNERS
“AN IMAGE IS BETTER THAN
THOUSAND WORDS! “

5. Characteristics
Visual learners often think in:
• Pictures
• Diagrams
• Displays
• Handouts
• Flip-charts

6. Visual Students
They learn much better when they read or seen the
information.
For an instance: In a conference they have
preference to read the photocopies or other kind of
guide before an oral explanation.

7. Advantages and
disadvantages
Advantatges Disadvantatges
Supplement verbal instructions Information presented in the form of
with an additional handout or a lecture or through verbal
diagram discussion.
Demonstrations that show the Excessive background noise can
learner how to complete a required quickly distract.
task or assignment.
Incorporate colorful and tangible An assigned task without specific
learning activities that include the instructions can be stressful and
use of flashcards, puzzles or confusing.
posters.

8. Quotidian actions:
• I try to visualize the word in my mind.
• It’s difficult to follow a long conversation.
• I usually use words like: look, imagine, etc.
• I prefer visual than oral presentations. It is easier to
understand with images, diagrams, time lines, etc.
• I like reading descriptive paragraphs because I can
imagine the action.

9. How can visual learners help
themselves?
Try to find diagrams, schematics, photographs or
any other visual representation.
 Ask to your lecture, consult reference books, and
see if any CD-ROM or video of the course material
are available.
Prepare a concept map by listing key
points, enclosing them in boxes or circles, and
drawing lines with arrows between concepts to show
connections.
 Color your notes with a highlighter.

10. PERSONAL OPINION
Do this power point, search information and
select the most important points has become a
nice way to know what kind of learners we are
and what can do to improve our skills while we
are studying.