FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

TOPIC: VARK INVENTORY LEARNING STYLE PROJECT 2 SUBJECT: PRE-ESPECIALIZATION

PROFESSOR: LIC. ULISES APARICIO

CAREER: ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAJOR

STUDENT: NELSON PEREZ TORRES

ID: 31-3681-1998.

SAN SALVADOR, MARCH 21st, 2013.

INTRODUCTION
The objective of this report is to let you know the relevance of the VARK INVENTORY LEARNING STYLE project, which gives you an idea about yourself; it could be used to understand your boss, colleagues, relatives, co-workers, customers, teachers, partners, your clients and yourself. This is a short inventory that has been well received due to its dimensions understood and its practical application. It has been of great help to

understand each other and assist people to learn more effectively in various situations.

What is VARK?
VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-out information. I had the opportunity to know my learning style. And I need to improve some important areas like visual and kinesthetic in the visual category means that I am lacking potential in that area as a learning style. And kinesthetic mean that I need to development more the senses end combine the others learning style.

The test result and the description of your learning style

The VARK Questionnaire results. My scores were: Visual Aural : : 10 9 7 6

Read / write : Kinesthetic :

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. The 6 in the kinesthetic category means that I am lacking potential in that area as a learning style. But I have a vary balance learning style. One advantage of being multimodal is that I can adapt to different teachers styles; so I could be effective in different circumstances and environment. I could switch to the teachers way of teaching because I have many resources to understand and communicate the information. According to my score, READ/WRITE category the 7 in the read/write category is the highest which means that I need to apply more strategies of learning and communicating from that category; but, I understand that I could use strategies from the other styles. According to my score, AURAL category, the 9 in the aural category is very high which mean that I need to apply more strategies of learning meaning that I have the ability to listen And a have good communication. According to my score the KINESTHETIC one, 6 in the kinesthetic category means that I am lacking potential in that area as a learning style and I need to develop more my senses and combine the other learning styles. According to my score the VISUAL STUDY STRATEGY which is the one where I got 10 my highest score I like to work more with pictures, charts, maps; I am more into creative style learning.

Select the Study Strategies that apply to your learning preferences. Study Strategies (these were selected according to my own result and analysis)

The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 10; Aural: 9; Read/Write: 7; Kinesthetic: 6

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Conclusion:
I consider this test very interesting because it measures four perceptual preferences: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R), and kinesthetic (K) in which it is useful in defining the style of learning. Most students represent the general level of intellectual functioning as lower than, average, in some cases even bordering mental disability. According to my results I agree with it, in the visual category it was 10 this means that I am potentially good in that area as a learning style. In kinesthetic my score was 6 which means that I am lacking potential in that area as a learning style and I need to improve more my senses end combine the other learning styles. I consider that these learning styles are important and can used by the teacher in a classroom, to measure the intellectual level on students and to know the mental abilities or disabilities.