The document discusses the VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) Model of learning styles. It describes the three main types of learning styles - visual learners who think in pictures, auditory learners who learn through listening, and kinesthetic learners who learn through physical movement and interaction. It provides strategies for each learning style type, such as encouraging visual learners to take notes and use color, auditory learners to read aloud and use rhymes, and kinesthetic learners to make role plays and use physical movement. The document also lists some online resources to help determine a person's dominant learning style and provides tips for using learning styles to make foreign language learning easier.

1. The VAK Model
Bettina Alexandra Langheim
COMPETÈNCIES, RECURSOS I ESTRATÈGIES
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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!”