1. Ana Mercedes García.
English Major
Year 2011
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and
Administration of the English Language (Part III)
VARK INVENTORY LEARNING STYLE
The purpose of this report is to show that people have a variety of different
approaches of learning and how people use information for effective learning,
communicate more effectively, and perform well in tests and examinations.
In order to be able to identify our learning style to understand the different
learning strategies that can we applied in our studies we will use a guide to
learning styles known as VARK . The acronym VARK stands for Visual, Aural,
Read/write, and Kinesthetic sensory modalities that are used for learning
information. There is some overlap between categories.
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
My scores were:
Visual: 1
Aural: 2
Read/Write: 6
Kinesthetic: 7
I have a multimodal (RK) learning prefence.
Multimodal Study Strategies
The multimodal style of learning means that I have a mixed combination of
potentialities of the learning styles and I can be more flexible about how I take in
and give out information.
The 1 in the VISUAL category means that I am lacking potential in that area as a
learning style. But I have a vary balance learning style. 60% of the population has
that particular style.
One advantage of being multimodal is that I can adapt to different teachers’
styles; so I am probably holistic rather than reductionist in my approach. And I
could be effective in different circumstances and environment. I prefer to draw in
order to be able to understand ideas.
According to my score, KINAESTHETIC category is the highest which means
that I need to do things to understand and for me the ideas are are only valuable
if they sound practical, real, and relevant to me.

2. The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 1; Aural: 2; Read/Write: 6; Kinaesthetic: 7
SWOT
INTAKE OUTPUT
- Study without tears
 Replace words with  Draw things, use
 Textbooks with symbols or initials diagrams
diagrams and pictures  Look at your pages  Write exam
 Graphs
answers
Visual=1  Underlining different
colours and  Practice turning
highlighters. visuals back into
words.
 Attend classes  Convert your "notes"
 Remember the into a learnable  Spend time in quiet
interesting examples, package by reducing places recalling the
Aural=2 stories, jokes... them (3:1) ideas.
 Leave spaces in your  Expand your notes  Speak your
notes for later recall by talking with others answers aloud or
and 'filling' and collecting notes inside your head.
from the textbook.
 headings  Read your notes  Write exam
 dictionaries (silently) again and answers.
 handouts again.  Practice with
 textbooks multiple choice
 Rewrite the ideas
 readings - library questions.
and principles into  Arrange your words
Read/ other words.
Write=6 into hierarchies and
 Imagine your lists points
arranged in multiple
choice questions and
distinguish each from
each.
 all your senses - sight,  You will remember  Write practice
touch, taste, smell, the “real” things that answers,
hearing ... happened. paragraphs...
 field trips  Role plays the
 Use pictures and
 lecturers who give exam situation in
Kinesthetic=7 real-life examples photographs that your own room.
 applications illustrate an idea.
 Trial and error  Go back to the
laboratory or your lab
manual.
In conclusion VARK can be a powerful tool to understand how to relate to others
and, any understanding of ourselves can be beneficial. Since I was able to
identify my own learning style, I could noticed that I have some weaknesses that
I need to improve, especially in the visual and aural categories.
The strength of the VARK questionnaire is that it provides strategies that can
lead to success in any learning environment. It treats people as different, not
dumb and suggests that some strategies may be helpful and some harmful. The
answer is to use the modes we prefer and avoid those that we do not like.