Faculty of Social Sciences Licentiature of English

TEACHER Martin Ulises Aparicio

Module 4 Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)

Project 2: VARK INVENTORY LEARNING STYLE

STUDENTS Claudia Elizabeth Martnez Lemus ID: 31-3110-2005

SAN SALVADOR, APRIL 9TH, 2010

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this report is to identify my learning styles and learning strategies as student. The results are provided from VARK. The acronomy VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic sensory modalities and it is a free questionnaire that provides a completely profile of our learning preferences.
These preferences are about the ways that we want to understand and transmit information and they are included in different categories: Visual (V) which is related with the description of information in map, graphs, diagrams; Aural / Auditory (A):which is related with lectures, tutorials, tapes, group discussion, email, using mobile phones, speaking; Read/write (R): this modality refers that learners' preferences are PowerPoint, the Internet, dictionaries, and words; Kinesthetic (K) is related with experience and practice (simulated or real), and Multimodal (MM) which is the combination of the all modes. It is important to know your learning preferences because in that way you can avoid those activities that you do not like for leaning and apply those ones to get a significant leaning as a student and as a teacher you can realize that you cannot teach as the way you learn because everybody learn in a different way.

VARK Questionnaire Results My scores: y y y y Visual: 8 Aural: 11 Read/Write: 10 Kinesthetic: 11

I have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference. Multimodal study strategy means that I have a combination of more than one mode or preference in my learning style. The 11 means I can apply different methods to understand and convey specific information. But also I have strong preferences in Reading and Writing. Some advantage of being multimodal are that I learn more than other ones because I get deeper understanding of any information through discussion and questionnaires and I become more confident at the time to express my ideas and understanding of any information. According to my score, Visual is the lowest which means that I want the whole picture of some information and I could take into consideration to apply different strategies to understand and convey information.

Study Strategies (These were selected according to my own result and analysis) The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 8; Aural: 11; Read/Write:10; Kinaesthetic: 11 INTAKE SWOT - Study without tears OUTPUT *draw things or use Visual: 8 *Pictures, videos, posters, diagrams slides. *Replace words with symbols *Flow charts. or initials. *recall information through *Underlining specific words or pictures made them by my phrases with different colors. own. *Graph and symbols to depict *Write exam answers. information. Aural: 11 *describe the overheads, pictures and other visuals to somebody who was not there *attend classes * attend discussions and tutorials * use a tape recorder *remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes Read/Write: 10 lists headings dictionaries glossaries definitions handouts textbooks essays manuals (computing and laboratory) *poor notes because you prefer to listen. Expand your notes by talking with others and collecting notes from the textbook. *Ask others to 'hear' your understanding of a topic. To perform well in any test, assignment or examination: *Imagine talking with the examiner. *Spend time in quiet places recalling the ideas. *Speak your answers aloud or inside your head.

*Write out the words again and again. *Read your notes (silently) again and again. *Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words. * Organize any diagrams, graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..." *

*Write exam answers. *Practice with multiple choice questions. *Write paragraphs, beginnings and endings. *Write your lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).

Kinesthetic: 11

all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ... laboratories field trips field tours examples of principles lecturers who give reallife examples applications hands-on approaches (computing) trial and error Exhibits, samples, photographs... recipes - solutions to problems, previous exam papers

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Your lecture notes may be poor because the topics were not 'concrete' or 'relevant'. You will remember the "real" things that happened. Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts. Talk about your notes with another "K" person. Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea. Recall the experiments, field trip...

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

Conclusin In my opinion this is an excellent online test in which you can realize yourself about your learning style throughout questionnaires, which is well elaborated because each questions and answers are related with real life and it provides an accurate result about the learning and communicative strategies according to your answers. I consider that the result of my test its accurate with my leaning style because the learning and communicative strategies are exactly what I do to learn something and I have been done some of them over the course of my life. I can use this information to know the lack of strategies in my leaning but also I can improve it putting in practice those activities that I am not use to do, and in that way get an good understanding or input and output of specific information. Certainly, I will use those strategies to get significant learning and be sure about expressing my ideas.