The Auditory Learner

Description: Auditory learners remember by listening, especially music; talk while they write; need phonics; may be sophisticated speakers; remember names, forget faces; may seem to be listening to something inside themselves, rather than the person with whom they are communicating; are distracted by noise; write lightly and not always legibly; written information often will have little meaning until it has also been heard; eyes move down and to their right when they are listening to others.

Hints for Auditory Learners:

• Explain the material you are trying to learn to a study partner

• Read explanations out loud

• Make up songs to go along with subject matter, the crazier the better

• Make up and repeat rhymes to remember facts, dates, names, etc.

• Record lectures and review in your spare time

• When learning new information, state the problem out loud, reason through solutions out loud

• Find videos that review information you are trying to learn

• Join or create a study group or get a study partner

• To learn a sequence of steps, write them out in sentence form, then read them out loud

• Use mnemonics and word links