Investigating Learning Styles (VARK) to Address Children’s Learning Needs Case of 3rd Grade Pupils at EL MojahidELTayebELRezmaPrimary School

Abstract

According to researchers and psychologists, students have diverse learning styles influenced by their unique environments, experiences, and perspectives. Therefore, effective learning is achieved when teachers are knowledgeable about the learning styles of each student and implement a creative teaching and learning approach that caters to their specific learning needs, capturing their attention throughout the educational journey. This study aims to investigate the visual, auditory, read/write and kinestheticlearning styles model and how it addresses the 3rd year primary school pupils. It is based on recognizing each learner’s style of learning and discovers what effective methods could be used in the teaching-learning process to support and develop them in a way to pupils’ learning needs. The data used was drawn from classroom observation and face-to-face interview with the teacher. The study involves 59 pupils from EL MojahidELtayebELRezmaprimary public school in Ghardaia city and their English language teacher. The outcomes showed that the four learning styles exist among the pupils. As they are young learners, most of them are visual learners; they are attracted and motivated to visual learning materials. The dominant learning style was found to be visual, with auditory following closely behind. Surprisingly, the read/write style came in third place, while the kinesthetic style produced unexpected results.