If you are an auditory learner, study works best if you: If you recognise these traits in your children, or the children you are working with, you can help them to learn these strategies too. Recognising if you are an auditory learner is a great starting point. Learning strategies for auditory learners remembering conversations, music and lyrics.detecting changes in speech, tone and emotions.They may be slow readers and find it hard to understand graphs and diagrams or read maps.Īuditory learners often work in areas such as writing, journalism, teaching, law, languages and speech pathology. They often play musical instruments and sing or hum to themselves when busy. When listening, they often look distracted, and like they are listening to their thoughts, with their eyes looking down to the right. Noise and music is very distracting and they don’t benefit as much as other learners from pictures or practical activities.
They may talk a lot and interrupt others. They often memorise best by hearing and speaking out loud. Only 30% of school students are auditory learners. Traits of auditory learnersĪuditory learners understand information best when they are given verbal instructions. The second way the brain can process information is by listening. In this series, we are exploring different learning styles.