Learning Preferences

LEARNING PREFERENCES It is paramount for teachers to bear in mind that every student perceives and processes new information according to his/her own learning style. There are three main ways to approach new knowledge: visual, auditory and kinaesthetic. In general terms, visual learners learn best by seeing the information; auditory learners learn best by speaking and listening; and, kinaesthetic learners learn best by touching, manipulating objects and doing, that is to say, by incorporating their whole bodies in their learning. Leer más

Fostering Our Students´ Writing Skills Through Reading

A great number of students usually voice that their least favorite skill is writing because they find it hard to generate ideas and organize them into a coherent text, or when they hit on an idea, they cannot translate it into actual words. No doubt writing is a painstaking job for our students because the skills involved in this process are highly complex: L2 writers have to struggle with the higher level cognitive skills of planning and organization as well as lower level skills such as spelling, word choice, punctuation, and so on when they must pen to write. Leer más