“There is no scientific evidence to show teaching to learning styles is effective, but what it has done is encourage lots of teachers to teach using different modes of information and actually all learners benefit from having information in visual, audiotory and kinaethetic forms.” Paul Howard Jones, Reader in Neuroscience and Education at Bristol University.
I’ve just sent a reviewer a copy of the latest Delta Publishing book on the topic, so I’ll be interested to see if that conclusion has got through to the world of TEFL yet.
From a great episode of the great BBC downloadable podcast All in the Mind:
download available indefinitely here.
And another great debunking in one of the all time classic guest posts on TEFLtastic:
https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/tefl-bullshit-detector-one/
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