1. The VAK Model
Bettina Alexandra Langheim
COMPETÈNCIES, RECURSOS I ESTRATÈGIES
D'APRENENTATGE DE L'ANGLÈS

2. Content
• The VAK Model
• Types of Learning Style
• Different Strategies
• Good Resourses
• Conclusion

3. What is the VAK Model?
• Common, widely used model (Fleming)
• Defines the preferred learning style of a person

4. Learning Styles
Visual Learners
• Think in pictures
• Enjoy looking at
videos, pictures
and movies
• Create visual
methaphors

5. Learning Styles

6. Learning Styles
• Express themselves
through movement
• Interact with their
environment
• Use body language to
express emotions

7. Different Strategies
Encourage visual learners to:
• Use colour to highlight important points
• Take notes
• Illustrate ideas as pictures
• Ask for written directions
• Visualise spelling of words

8. Different Strategies
Encourage auditory learners to:
• Read out aloud
• Recite information
• Use tunes or rhymes
• Listen to tapes

9. Different Strategies
Encourage kinesthetic learners to:
• Make role plays to experience learning
• Translate information into diagrams
• Recall information by counting on fingers
• Memorise a certain drill while moving

10. Good Resourses
• Find out what type of learner YOU are!
http://eugenia.atspace.com/
http://www.brainboxx.co.uk/A3_ASPECTS/pages/VAK_quest.htm
My research websites:
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
http://www.businessballs.com/vaklearningstylestest.htm

11. Conclusion
• Definition of one`s learning style makes the
learning process of a foreign language easier
• Offers good advice
• Some people have a mixed learning style
-> No problem!!!

12. “Thank you for your attention!”