UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLGICA DE EL SALVADOR

Language Department

Name: Brenda Lisseth Mejia Moreno

31-3648-2007

Career: English Degree

Subject: Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language

Activity: VARK Inventory Learning Style

Teacher: Martin Ulises Aparicio

Year: 2013

INTRODUCTION The VARK that means V=visual, A=aural R=read/write K= Kinesthetic, is a very helpful test and its purpose is to show the learning styles of every person their preferences and the areas we need to reinforce. This test will help us to identify our learning preferences and our learning lacking potentials to look for good strategies that help us to learn in an effective way. Is very important that students know their own personal learning style to identify which areas we like more than the others. The VARK Questionnaire Results Your scores were: Visual: 11 Aural: 9 Read/Write: 8 Kinesthetic: 11 You have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference. I agree with this result because I learn from different forms, the score were visual 11 as Kinesthetic, I really like to learn through looking pictures, creative charts etc. I like to read books that have pictures. In Aural 8, I think is very important to develop the aural area in our learning style specially is we are studying languages, I feel I learn a lot when I listen songs or people talking. In Read/Write 8 the slow score this show that Im lacking potential in that area.

Study Strategies

The VARK Questionnaire Results :Visual: 11; Aural: 9; Read/Write: 8; Kinaesthetic: 11

Visual=11 INTAKE - attend classes - discuss topics - explain new ideas to other people - use a tape recorder - remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes... - leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling' -Charts -Visual aids -Pp presentations -Videos * glossaries * handouts SWOT - Study without tears - Convert your "notes" into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1) - Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them. - Read your summarized notes aloud. OUTPUT - Imagine talking with the examiner. - Practice writing answers to old exam questions.

Aural=9

* Read your notes (silently) again and again.

* Write exam answers. * Practice with multiple

Read/write=8

Kinesthetic=11

* textbooks * readings - library * notes (often verbatim) * essays * manuals (computing and laboratory) * Songs *Conversations * all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ... * laboratories * field trips * examples of principles * lecturers who give real-life examples * applications *written analysis *essays *Dramatizations *Dancing *body language *facial expressions *all your senses. *walking *running *jumping *singing *mimos

* Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words. * Organize any diagrams, graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..."

choice questions. * Write your lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).

* Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts. * Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea. * Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual. *To use pictures and create a story *Make movements with our body and guess what it is about.

* Write practice answers, paragraphs... * Role plays the exam situation in your own room.

*Write sentences using pictures

*Make use of all your body to present a topic

CONCLUSION The VARK is a useful test because it helps students to identify the areas they like more and areas they dont like, in the results we can observe the learning style we have and if we need to taste using another area that are important in the learning process. Apart of that we can learn using another kind of methodology in order to the learning activities go according to the learning style to facilitate the learning process of each student.