FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

MODULE 2 Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)
TITLE: Project 2, VARK inventory learning style PROFESSOR: Martn Ulises Aparicio Morataya NAME: Mayra Esperanza Tejada CAREER: English Major

YEAR: 2011

By: Mayra tejada UTEC 2011

2. INTRODUCTION

The purpose of the following project is to know the different students learning styles through taking a questionnaire (VARK). It contains several questions with different learning styles. According with VARK, there are several strategies to learn in the teaching learning p r o c e s s , th e s e s t r a t e g i e s a r e ca l l e d L e a r n i n g s t y l e s , V i s u a l , A u r a l , R e a d / w r i t e , K i n e s t h e ti c , a n d M u l ti m o d a l . The questionnaire just takes a few minutes, in order to be completed and automatically it shows the results based on the VARK guide. It is really important to know, what preference best fit to your learning style. In this way, you can realize and improve your learning styles through working and putting in practice the learning styles they need to improve.

3. THE TEST RESULT AND THE DESCRIPTION OF YOUR

LEARNING STYLE
According to the Multimodal learning styles, I have a combination multiple preferences which fit me in the 60% of any population. My scores were: Visual: 13, Aural: 9; Read/Write: 7 and Kinesthetic: 10. I have a multimodal (ARK) learning preference. Visual: 13; It was my highest score, and I totally agree. It shows that I am good at learning through pictures, videos, posters, slides, charts, diagrams, graphs, symbols, gestures, and so on. The truth is I like to study by listening, I like to have my books and lectures transformed to audio format, I also like to listen podcast of any topic. Aural: 9; It means that I learn when discussing topics with others, explaining my ideas to others, remember interesting examples, stories, jokes. Read/Write: 6; It was my lowest score and shows that I am not so good at reading or writing. But I think I could improve this by learning from the different learning strategies provide by this site. Kinesthetic: 10; It shows that, I like to learn using all my senses, touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing. I like physical activities in order to learn something, do practical experiments and I also remember things by going back in my minds before taking the questionnaire I thought it was going to be my highest score, but true its not.

By: Mayra tejada UTEC 2011

4. - SELECT THE STUDY STRATEGIES THAT APPLY TO YOUR LEARNING PREFERENCES

The VARK Questionnaire Results :Visual: 13; Aural: 9; Read/Write: 7; Kinaesthetic: 10

INTAKE
To take in the information. Pictures, videos, posters, slides. Textbooks with diagrams and pictures. Graphs, Flow charts. To take in the information: Attend classes. Attend discussions and tutorials. Discuss different topics with others. Share and explain new ideas to other people.

SWOT - Study without tears

To make a learnable package: Replace words with symbols or initials. Redraw your passages from memory. Convert your notes into a learnable package by reducing them. To make a learnable package:

OUTPUT
To perform well in the test. Draw things, use diagrams. Recall the pictures made by your pages. Practice turning your visuals back into words.

Visual = 13

To perform well in any test, assignment or examination: Listen to my words and write them out. Spend time in a quiet place recalling new ideas. Spend time in quiet places recalling the ideas. Imagine talking with the examiner. Speak your answers aloud till you really hear. To perform well in a test: Practice with multiple, choice questions. Arrange your words into hierarchies and points.

Aural =9

Ask others to 'hear' your understanding of a topic. Ask others to 'hear' your understanding of a topic.

To take in the information:

To make a learnable package: Read your notes silently again and again. Organize any diagrams, graphs into statements. Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words. To make a learnable package: Your lecture may be poor because the topics were not concrete or relevant. Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.

Read/ Write =7

Definitions. Readings. Library. Manuals. Essays. Textbooks

To take in the information: All your senses, Sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing. Example of principles. Applications. Lecturers who give real, life examples. Recipes, solutions to problems

To perform well in the test:

Kinesthetic =10

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

By: Mayra tejada UTEC 2011

5. CONCLUSION:
As a conclusion I can say that I agree with my results, because it shows what I am. The result is according to the different learning strategies that I have been using during my learning process at UTEC. This information is very useful to me, whit this I can identify what learning styles should I improve and the strategies that I could implement to be better on. I am going to try to develop harder my style and take advantage of this information provided by VARK. My low score was in Read/Write, something I am not proud of, but with the strategies this page provides, I hope be better soon.

By: Mayra tejada UTEC 2011