Learning Style

Learning Theory

Word-Sentence-Meaning Visual Audio Kinetic (VAK) Learning Styles Kolb Learning Styles

Word-Sentence-Meaning

English words learning difficulty is divided into few stages

1.

Word Learning

One meaning of a word Multiple meanings of the same word

2.

Usage of word in sentences

Match the meaning of the word with the correct sentence which a word was used in

Games for Word-SentenceMeaning

Flash cards Shadowing Relate images with a word Use video to show word usage context sentence and word matching

Visual Audio Kinetic (VAK) Learning Styles

People have tendency to lean to certain learning styles VISUAL AUDIO KINETIC Testing students for their characteristics in these styles can speed up the learning process

Kolb Learning Styles

There are 3 types

Accommodating - Intuition Diverging – Going through all possible choices Converging – use self-constructed rules to decide

Kolb Learning Styles in Relation to Games

Accommodating Game Example: User have 4 boxes (A,B,C,D) and a group of word cards. User will select the word cards he/she remember, the and put inside box B. Words cant remember/memorize back to box A. Repeat the steps until Box D. The words in Box D will be tested. Diverging Game Example: 1 word have many meanings, you need to match the meaning with the appropriate words in a sentence. Converging Game Example : Use the words have been learned to be recorded in a sentence as sound format, and user will try to construct the words, checked by lecture.