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Visual learning characteristics include:

1. remembering visual details
2. preferring to see what they are learning

3. needing to have paper and pens handy

4. doodling while listening
5. liking to write down instructions or see them demonstrated. Worth

noting: Telling these learners how to do something may not make sense
to them at all – they need to see it.

c. Kinesthetic/tactile learners

These learners like to be actively involved in the learning process,
and learn best through hands-on activities and movement. Other kinesthetic

characteristics are they:

1. want to actually do whatever is being talked about or learned

2. like to move around while listening or talking
3. often ―talk‖ with their hands

4. like to touch things in order to learn about them
5. remember events by recalling who did what rather than who said

what.

H. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG LEARNERS

When we teaching we should know how the characteristic our

student. Young children hear is the student that study in elementary school
6 or 7-year-old to eleventh or twelve-year-old. Young learners they have

their own characteristic that different with adult or older people. Even very
young children have predisposition to learn in certain domains and that

young children are actively engaged in making sense of their world.

Children lack knowledge and experience, but not reasoning ability. Their
knowledge may jump- start the learning process, but because of limited

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