Tips for Auditory Learners

Clues to Style

• Excellent listeners
• Prefers to get information by listening- needs to hear it or speak it to know it
• Written directions more difficult to follow than spoken ones
• Prefers listening to reading or writing
• Has difficulty reading body language and facial expressions
• Can reproduce symbols, letters or words by hearing them
• Enjoys dialogues, plays, dictation
• Favors music
• Can learn concepts by listening to tapes
• Often hum or talk to selves or others
• Can repeat or fulfill verbal instructions
• Learning phonics helpful to reading
• Tends to listen first to lecture and then
• Take notes or relies on printed notes
• Written information may have little meaning unless read aloud
• Solves problems by talking about them
• Good at telling jokes and stories
• Likes class discussions but can be easily distracted by noise
• Filters incoming information through listening and repeating aloud

Study Tip Suggestions

• Study in groups and talk things out
• Get a small tape recorder
• Record lectures, tutoring and study groups (makes a verbal record for review)
• Reduce lecture notes to main ideas (3:1) and put them on tape
• Read texts out loud or into recorder
• Listen to lecture/text tapes while driving
• Dictate papers, to be typed later
• Read questions aloud
• Work out problems aloud
• Sit in the front of the class
• Learn by participating in class discussions and debates
• Make speeches and presentations
• Create musical jingles or mnemonics to aid memorization
• Use verbal analogies and story telling to demonstrate your point
• Read explanations out loud
• To learn a sequence of steps, write them out in sentences, then read them aloud
• Explain ideas to other people
• Recite, recite, recite
• Discuss your ideas verbally whenever possible, even if you're having a conversation with yourself!