Read aloud, especially when doing proofreading or when you’re tired. You will understand the material better if you can hear it. You can even read silently while moving your lips slightly and hearing the works in your head. Before you being, set a purpose and verbalize it.

When writing a rough draft of a paper, think of your topic and just write the words as you hear them in your head. You can go back later and organize the material and fix mechanical things like punctuation and grammar. Also, try writing with a tape recorder. Speak your ideas into a tape machine as if you were talking to an interested person. This will allow you to think at to speed without losing your train of thought. You can transcribe the tape later. Be sure to have someone else look over your proofreading.

Discuss your ideas with a friend or small group. Brainstorm and discuss possibilities and plans. Tape the sessions. Set up pep-talk sessions to encourage one another. Quiz each other before exams.

To prepare to give a speech, hear it in your head going perfectly. Visualize it too if you can. Try visualizing and/or hearing it to yourself three times per day for three days before the presentation.

When doing math computations by hand, use graph paper. This will help you to keep the columns aligned.

Ask to take oral quizzes, tests, and exams. In English composition classes a main task is to learn to write, so instructors will rarely allow students to turn in tape recoded “papers.” In other classes, however the goal is to learn the subject at hand and oral or tape-recorded “papers” and tests are often appropriate.

When memorizing factual material, recite it over and over. Though it may seem silly to talk to yourself, you will tend to memorize very efficiently in this way.

Arrange your study time so that you can complete one task before beginning another. This will make it easier for you to feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of each study session and keep you from having to reread a lot of material to figure out where you left off in the last study session.

You may want to sit at the back or one side of the classroom. Sometimes auditory learners find it distracting to be at the front and center of the class where there is a lot of visual stimulation.