STUDENT NAME:

KAREN NATALIA LOPEZ VALLEJO

CAREER:
ENGLISH DEGREE

SUBJECT:
MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES FOR THE
TEACHING AND

ADMINISTRATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (PART III)

MODULE
#IV

PROJECT
井 II

TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY:

VARK INVENTORY LEARNING STYLE

TEACHER NAME:
LIC. MARTIN ULICES APARICIO.

DUE DATE:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2011.

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, CENTRO AMÉRICA.

 INTRODUCTION

In this project is taking into account various aspects to develop VARK

activity to know the way how are our strength and weakness, we have to
respond the VARK questionnaire to know it. That questionnaire has
sixteen questions to evaluate how the best way to learn is, but that
questionnaire is very poorly designed, because many of the choices do not reflect how
someone learns best. In this website have different approaches to learning
to support a student's in the way they are learning better. Although
there is Learning Styles which can be explored, VARK modal is one of
them.

All students learn differently and VARK gives us the different learning styles and gives us
a guide how to improvise and improve the way we learn better or an idea, they reflect
personality and interests.
Visual Learning Style: This preference includes the depiction of
information in charts, graphs, flow charts, and all the symbolic arrows,
circles, hierarchies and other devices that instructors use to represent
what could have been presented in words.
Aural Learning Style: This perceptual mode describes a preference for
information that is "spoken or heard." Students with this modality report
that they learn best from lectures, tutorials, and talking to other
students.
Read/Write Learning Style: This preference is for information
displayed as words. Not surprisingly, many academics have a strong
preference for this modality.
Kinesthetic Learning Style: This modality refers to the perceptual
preference related to the use of experience and practice (simulated or
real).

With those styles we can learn in the entire subject or in the real life.
THE VARK QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

Your scores were:

• Visual: 6
• Aural: 7
• Read/Write: 8
• Kinesthetic: 9

I have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference.

Multimodal Study Strategies

I have multiple preferences I am in the majority as approximately 60%

of any population fits that category, which means that I should learn
with the different kind of teacher and how explain a class, that it is my
advantage.

Multiple preferences are interesting varied. My particular strong

preference is Kinesthetic that was the high result 9 and my others result
was less than 9 that’s why I learn in different ways, my others scores
are V=6, A=7 and R=8. I adapted to the mode being used or requested.
If the teacher preferred a visual mode I switched into that mode for mine
responses and for mine learning process.

The multimodal give me a multiple preference of choices that can I

interact with my folks. That has a positive reaction, because I can work
and have quickly adaptation who is work with me, it doesn´t matter how
their mode is.

DESCRIPTION OF LEARNING STYLE

STUDY STRATEGIES

The VARK Questionnaire Results :Visual:6 ; Aural: 7; Read/Write: 8;

Kinaesthetic: 9
 INTAKE SWOT - Study OUTPUT
without tears
Visual • Lecturers who use • reconstruct • draw things,
gestures and the images in use
picturesque different ways diagrams
language. ….try different • Recall the
• Pictures, videos, spatial pictures
posters and slides. arrangements made by
• Flow charts • Redraw your your pages
• Underlining pages from • Write exam
memory answers
• Different colors
• Replace words • Practice
• Highlighters pages from turning your
• Textbooks with memory visuals back
diagrams and • Look at your into words
pictures pages
• Graphs
• Symbols, white,
space

Aural • attend classes • Your notes • Listen to

• discuss topics may be poor your voices
• explain new ideas because you and write
• use a tape prefer to them down.
recorder listen. • Spend time
• Remember the • Put your in quiet
interesting summarized places
examples, stories, notes onto recalling the
jokes... tapes and ideas.
• leave spaces in listen to them. • Practice
your notes for • Read your writing
later recall and summarized answers to
'filling' notes aloud. old exam
questions.
• Explain your
notes to • Speak your
another 'aural' answers
person. aloud or
inside your
head.
Read/wri • lists • Read your • Practice with
te • headings notes multiple
• dictionaries (silently) choice
• glossaries again and questions.
• definitions again. • Write
• handouts • Organize any paragraphs,
diagrams, beginnings
• textbooks
graphs ... into and endings.
• readings - library
statements, • Write your
• notes (often e.g. "The lists (a, b, c,
verbatim) trend is..." d, 1, 2, 3,
• essays 4…).
• Turn
 • manuals reactions, • Arrange your
(computing and actions, words into
laboratory) diagrams, hierarchies
charts and and points.
flows into
words.
Kinesthetic • all your senses - • You will • Write
sight, touch, taste, remember the practice
smell, hearing ... "real" things answers,
• laboratories that paragraphs...
• field trips happened. • Role plays
• lecturers who give • Talk about the exam
real-life examples your notes situation in
• applications with another your own
• hands-on "K" person. room.
approaches
(computing) • Use pictures
• trial and error and
photographs
that illustrate
• Collections of rock
an idea.
types, plants,
shells, grasses.

CONCLUSION

I think this particular questionnaire does a very poor job assessing aural
learners, as many of the options I suspect are to identify them will pick
up instead people who don't have the confidence to make their own
choices and rely on the opinions of others; for example: ( in a restaurant
they would "listen to the waiter or ask friends to recommend choices", to
cook something special, they would "ask friends for suggestions", buying
a new camera or phone based on "The salesperson telling me about its
features.") I don't think the questions are designed to cleanly assess
types of learning, so I don't think meaningful conclusions can be drawn
from the results.

I was determined to be a "multi-modal" learner. The description that

came along with my selected handouts says that 60% of people are
multi-modal learners, and suggests that I read through all of the
handouts and select those strategies I think would work best for me. I'm
not thinking that's terribly helpful (nor, I think, is it likely to be
something a student would do).