ABSTRACT
In September 2012 we conducted an Internet search on ‘learning style assessment’. Within moments Google located 10 websites offering to either (a) diagnose our personal learning styles online or (b) display the questionnaire instruments used to do this. An inspection of those questionnaires located revealed all were based on what researchers refer to as the VAK model. This model says that human beings, as individuals, naturally fit into one of three categories, associated with the input sensory systems that we use to process information: visual learners (V), auditory learners (A), and kinaesthetic learners (K) (or VAK, for short). It is said that most of us are visual learners and will benefit from instruction which features visual elements, imagery, or spatial relationships, at least when shown in visual form. Auditory learners benefit from hearing words and learn effectively through language and building vocabulary. Kinaesthetic learners learn from movement, from action, from doing things with their hands, and tactile resources in general.
