VAK-based activities to increase vocabulary in EFL college students

Abstract

This study addresses the relationship between the adaptation of classroom activities -to match the dominant Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic (VAK) learning style of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students, and vocabulary acquisition. There were 23 participants, of which 65% were female. A t-test for related samples determined that, regardless of the learning style of students, there was a positive effect of the intervention on the vocabulary level, using Schmitt´s Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) as the pre and posttest. However, a linear regression suggested that such effect was limited.