Name: Claudia Patricia Lpez Cruz

Subject: Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)

Topic: VARK inventory learning style

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays is important to study because it is possible to obtain best results in the real life, for that reason it is essential to know what are the learning styles that the person has to improve the process learning. There is an important tool that help to identify what is or what are the learning styles, this tool is called VARK (V= visual, A=aural, R=reading/write, K=Kinaesthetic). VARK is a questionnaire where person can distinguish how they learn best. One important characteristic of this questionnaire is that give the opportunity choose more than one option giving a better information about the learning style that person has.

Through this questionnaire every person can achieve a best development in the process learning; because the person discover which is the learning style that has such way when the learning style is discovered will be apply by each person to expand or improve the knowledge. Beside this questionnaire help to identify another learning style that person could use to learn better.

The VARK Questionnaire Results Your scores were: Visual: 7 Aural: 4 Read/Write: 9 Kinesthetic: 6

I have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference. Multimodal Study Strategies The multimodal style of learning means that I have a mixed combination of potentialities of the learning styles. Regarding my score Visual I have a good strategy for learn best but it not the same result regarding my score Aural is very low that means I do not have good learning through this way.

But according to my score, READ/WRITE category is the highest which means that I need to apply more strategies of learning and communicating from that category; to improve my knowledge. My score regarding Kinesthetic also I can use to learn more because make use of all my senses.

The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 7; Aural: 4; Read/Write: 9; Kinaesthetic: 6 INTAKE VISUAL=7 - pictures - book whit pictures - recall pictures - flow charts READ/ WRITE=9 * glossaries * handouts Read (silently) your again notes and SWOT - Study without tears - Reconstruct the images - Redraw pages from memory OUTPUT - Draw things -Use diagrams -write exam answers -practice the visual back into word Write answers. exam

* textbooks * readings - library * notes (often verbatim) * essays * manuals (computing and laboratory)

again. Rewrite the ideas and principles words. Organize diagrams, graphs any ... into other

Practice multiple questions.

with choice lists

Write

your

(a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).

into statements, e.g. "The trend is..." KINESTHETIC=6 * all your senses - sight, * Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts. * idea. * Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual. Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an * Write practice answers, paragraphs... * Role plays the exam situation in your own room. touch, taste, smell, hearing ... * laboratories * field trips * examples of principles * lecturers who give real-life examples * applications

CONCLUSION I think that it is an excellent test because help us to understand better our learning process, also help us to improve our knowledge, put into practice the all process in each learning styles will be important in the acquisition of the foreign language we can obtain better communication each others, we can fell more confidents in a conversation. I agree whit the result because I know that I learn more reading and writing but the another learning styles I will into a count to improve my knowledge regarding the English language