Students name: Carina Lizeth Aquino Serrano

Career: English Major Degree

Module 5: Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language

Title: Vark, Questionnaire

Date: April 4, 2013

INTRODUCTION This report is about how the questionnaire Vark could help us to understand or to identify our personal learning style in order to know which areas we could improve. People learn in different ways with different methods, some people are more visual or more aural than other. People who are multimodal in their preferences can be more flexible about how they take in and give out information than those with a VARK profile that emphasizes a single preference.

What is Vark? The acronym VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic. Vark is a questionnaire that helps people to discover the profile of their learning preferences. It is about the ways that they want to take-in and give-out information. The questionnaire has 16 questions about different thing or ways that you prefer do it the things or received the information. VARK provides strategies that can lead to success in any learning environment. VARK is not expected that any one preference will be dominant or that all participants will be multimodal

The importance of knowing our personal learning style: When you make the questionnaire you can identify how you learn easy, if you like pictures, discuss topics, read instruction, read extended materials or you learn by doing. We are always learning in different context and this test makes references when we make different applications in sport, training and education. It is important to know that the preferences are not the same as strengths. VARK scores indicate how you learn, they may not indicate how you teach, train, or work with others.

Examples of results and the description of learning style

The VARK Questionnaire Results

Your scores were: Visual: 1 Aural: 9 Read/Write: 1 Kinesthetic: 5

I have a multimodal (AKVR) learning preference. I have a strong Aural learning preference, and also I have a high Kinesthetic learning preference and I have a low potential in visual and reading/write as a learning style. Sometimes I use a combination of these preference because I learn in different ways and in different environments so this make that I adequate my learning preference depends on the situation, topic, place or teachers styles. I need to apply more the strategies to be more effective and to increase my potencial.

Study strategies The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual:1 ; Aural: 9; Read/Write: 1; Kinaesthetic: 5
Visual= INTAKE -Pictures -Posters, sliders -Presenters who use gestures and pictures. -Attend class -Attend discussion and tutorials. -Explain new ideas with others. -glossaries -handouts -textbooks -readings - library -manuals (computing and laboratory) -all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ... - field trips -examples of principles -lecturers who give real-life examples SWOT - Study without tears -Replace words with symbols or initials. -Reconstruct the images in different ways - Ask others to hear your understanding of a topic. - Read your summarized notes aloud. -Read your notes (silently) again and again. -Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words. OUTPUT -Draw things and use diagrams. -Write exams answers. -Recall the pictures made by your pages. - listen to your voices and write them down. - Practice writing answers to old exam questions. -Write exam answers. -Practice with multiple choice questions. -Write your information into a lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4). -Write practice answers, paragraphs... -Role plays the exam situation in your own room.

Aural=

Read/ Write=

Kinesthetic=

-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.

Conclusion This kind of questionnaire is helpful to identify the different ways we learn and what are our preferences, our learning styles. Learners are identified by whether they have a preference for visual learning, auditory learning, reading and writing, or kinesthetic learning. Sometimes people change their preferences based on the situation or the type of information they are learning, in such instances, they probably have what is known as a multimodal style. In my case I agree with the result because I think it is what I usually learn from my teacher, I prefer Aural style or learning by doing so this questionnaire help me to understand better my preferences.

I will put in practice these strategies because I need to improve my learning and I need to get better results and become better student.