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Auditory Learning

Memory, Retention and Retrieval Strategies

Auditory learning, or the auditory modality, is one of three learning modalities originally proposed by Walter Burke Barbe and colleagues. It characterizes a learner as depending on listening and speaking as a primary method of processing and retaining information.

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Auditory learners are characterized as depending on listening and speaking, rather than reading or hands-on activity, as their primary way of taking in and retaining information. 1
Origin Year
1979 1
Year of Barbe, Swassing and Milone Teaching through modality strengths: concepts practices, the foundational publication the article cites for the three-modality framework this entity describes.
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1. Auditory learning (Wikipedia)
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    Barbe, Walter Burke; Swassing, Raymond H.; Milone, Michael N. (1979). Teaching through modality strengths: concepts practices. Columbus, Ohio: Zaner-Bloser. ISBN 0883091003. OCLC 5990906.
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    Auditory learning, or the auditory modality, is one of three learning modalities originally proposed by Walter Burke Barbe and colleagues that characterizes a learner as depending on listening and speaking as a primary method of processing and/or retaining information.
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