Learning Styles and Learning to Read

Abstract

This paper examines the application of learning styles to the teaching of reading. The learning styles approach is based on the premise that learning styles can be assessed and the results can be used to determine instructional methods. Viewed in a historical context, learning style is not a new educational trend, but an extension of the well-worn process approaches that have been largely discredited. The application of learning styles to the teaching of reading is critiqued in light of four factors: (a) inability to adequately assess learning styles, (I$ failure to acknowledge the necessity of phonics instruction for beginning readers, (c) failure to consider the nature of reading disabilities, and (d) lack of convincing research. This critique suggests that the use of learning styles to prescribe methods of reading instruction must be viewed with skebticism.

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