VARK

Sensory Preferred Input Sample Language Learning Activities

Modality
Preference
pictures, videos, diagrams • learning vocabulary from pictures
(graphs, flow charts) • seeing flowcharts for processes
Visual
• watching a role play or video for
functional language
music, discussion, lectures • reading out loud
• listening to and making up songs
Auditory
• listening to jazz chants
• interviewing partner
reading textbooks, overheads, • doing exercises on paper
Reading and
or handouts; taking notes and • reading PowerPoint slides
Writing
re-reading them
movement, experiments and • acting out role plays
practices, hands-on activities • working with task manipulatives
Kinesthetic
(e.g., physically matching definitions
and terms on strips of paper)

Multiple Intelligences

Domain Description Learner Activity Suggestions

can reason inductively and
deductively; involves detecting
Logical-
patterns, thinking logically, and
Mathematical
carrying out mathematical
operations
is sensitive to language and can
Linguistic-
manipulate it to accomplish goals
Verbal
can visualize and manipulate
Visual-Spatial patterns in space to solve problems
involves sensitivity to and creation
and performance of musical
Musical
patterns
• Make up analogies to explain
how the language works.
• Describe the patterns in
grammar, the sound system of
the language.
• Conduct a debate on a topic.
• Write a poem, myth, legend,
short play, or news article.
• Read and draw stories.
• Use maps and pictures of
objects, activities.
• Learn songs in the language.
• Come up with jingles to learn
grammatical structures,
vocabulary.
 can coordinate one's own bodily
Bodily- movements and use it to solve
Kinesthetic problems
can understand and discern the
feelings and intentions of others
Interpersonal and can be used to work well with
others
can understand one's own feelings
and motivations and can be used to
Intrapersonal
effectively regulate one’s life
can recognize, categorize and draw
upon certain features of the
environment
Naturalistic
• Act out a role play.
• Bring hands-on materials to
learn vocabulary and language
structures.
• Do activities/play games that
involve more people.
• Find someone else who is also
learning a language and share
experiences.
• Keep a journal, reflect on what
you enjoy about the language.
• Take time alone to review what
you have learned.
• Go for a walk and learn to
describe what you see in the
foreign language.
• Learn the names of plants and
animals.
• Use your understanding of how
categorization works in the
natural world to help you learn
in other areas.