{"id":46450,"date":"2014-11-22T21:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T02:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/?p=46450"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:46:35","slug":"esl-teaching-strategies-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/educator-english\/esl-teaching-strategies-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Key Learning Styles in English Language Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are seven major learning styles that students possess. By creating lesson plans that appeal to multiple learning styles, you’re sure to see class-wide improvement.<\/p>\n

Let’s go through the seven main learning styles in English language teaching, including visual, aural and more. I’ll also give you some tips for implementing these styles into your teaching methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1. Visual (Spatial)<\/h2>\n

Pictures, images and spatial understanding are the preferred learning media of visual learners. These learners love to see lessons come to life, and often sit at the front of the class to not only get a full view of their teacher’s body language and facial expressions, but also to avoid potential visual obstructions (and distractions).<\/p>\n

Tips for Teachers:<\/strong>
\nVisual learners are your detailed note takers. They think in pictures and learn best from visual displays, slide shows, posters, clips and other visual tools.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, simple things like writing an outline of your grammar lesson on the board will also satisfy your visual learners’ desire to take notes and capture everything in their own creative and vivid manners.<\/p>\n

2. Aural (Auditory-musical)<\/h2>\n

Auditory learners rely primarily on music<\/a> and sound for their learning. Information is often best acquired through verbal lectures, discussions and mini-presentations.<\/p>\n

Tips for Teachers:
\n<\/strong>Auditory learners interpret the underlying meanings of words through listening to the tone, pitch, speed and other phonological nuances of your speech. Because written information may have little meaning to these students, auditory learners enjoy reading text aloud and may even bring a tape recorder to record your lecture.<\/p>\n

While your auditory learners are perfectly content with you giving a 60-minute lecture, strategically integrating audio books, songs and movies<\/a> into your lesson, like those found on FluentU<\/a>, will stimulate their brain and wake up your non-auditory learners.<\/p>\n

FluentU<\/strong> takes authentic videos\u2014like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks\u2014and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.<\/p>\r\n

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