Students’ VARK Learning Style in Digital Content Writing
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VARK, Learning style, Digital Content WritingAbstract
This study aims to investigate students’ learning style by administrating VARK model to see its crucial factor in students’ dominant learning style for digital content writing. There are 38 junior high school students who fill questionnaire using online google form. The students are randomly chosen from 5 classes to fill VARK questionnaire since they are taking digital content writing class. There are 16 domain questions in the questionnaire with 4 options. The total data are 608 data. Aside from questionnaire, the students was also given forum group discussion and practical training to create multimodal digital writing in this study. It is found that the students tend to use multimodal learning style in creating digital content writing. It is assumed that creating digital modes in content writing need more than one domains in VARK, though they dominantly do writing and reading activities. The students need further training to be more applicative in creating digital content writing.
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