Reflection/Shinta Puspita Kencanasari/MID3

Who Am I as A Learner?

Dr. Georgi Lezanov divides learning process into three parts. Those are visual, auditory and kinesthetic process. Visual process is learning process that uses eyes or vision as tools to absorb and understand information. Auditory process is learning process that uses ears or hearing instruments as tools to absorb information maximally. Kinesthetic process is learning process that uses moving, touching or doing thoroughly to understand the information. This kind of learning process is called by VAK (visual, auditory and kinesthetic).

A visual learner has characteristics such as: can be easier to remember visual things than listen for something, likes to read, has problems to remember verbal instruction except if it is written down and speak faster.

An auditory learner has characteristics such as: likes speak to their selves when they do something, easily to disturbed by noisy, has good intonation in speaking and always be a good speaker.

Characteristics of a kinesthetic learner, such as: speak slowly, not easily to disturbed by noisy, learning by doing, likes hard games and memorizing by walking and seeing.

I always learn with reading and doing directly. For example, I like some lessons that I can practice it directly when I am learning. Because I have trouble if I should to only hear the instructions without see and practice it. And I like reading graphics, mechanical drawings and power point slides better than reading one long article. I like reading books with big font, big space line and have colorful pictures. I’d rather to writing a power point report than writing a paper report.

Based on VAK theory, I have visual and kinesthetic characteristics. Between visual and kinesthetic, I have more characteristics in visual learner than kinesthetic learner. So, I can conclude that I am a visual learner.