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Carl Dowse

Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It's Unlikely : Shots - Heal... - 0 views

  • When he reviewed studies of learning styles, he found no scientific evidence backing up the idea. "We have not found evidence from a randomized control trial supporting any of these," he says, "and until such evidence exists, we don't recommend that they be used."
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    The case against learning styles
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Macmillan Practice Online - Course book related interactive material - 0 views

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    Macmillan Practice Online is a new supplementary practice environment for learners of English as a foreign language, powered by Macmillan English Campus.
Luciana Garimaldi

Listen to English - learn English! - The podcast website for people learning English - 0 views

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    Two short (5 minutes or less) podcasts every week in clearly spoken English will help you to improve your listening skills and learn new words and expressions. Many podcasts are linked to grammar and vocabulary notes or to quizes or exercises.
Carl Dowse

Learning Styles Debunked: There is No Evidence Supporting Auditory and Visual Learning,... - 0 views

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    Nearly all of the studies that purport to provide evidence for learning styles fail to satisfy key criteria for scientific validity. Any experiment designed to test the learning-styles hypothesis would need to classify learners into categories and then randomly assign the learners to use one of several different learning methods, and the participants would need to take the same test at the end of the experiment. If there is truth to the idea that learning styles and teaching styles should mesh, then learners with a given style, say visual-spatial, should learn better with instruction that meshes with that style.
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