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1.0 Introduction
Learning style can be described as an individual's natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and processing information in learning situations. It is a core concept that individuals differ in how they learn. In the perspective of supporters, teacher should evaluate the student's learning style. Although there is sufficient obvious for differences in individual thinking and ways of processing various types of information, few studies have reliably tested the validity of using learning styles in education. On the opposite side, critics say there is no evidence that identifying an individual student's learning style produces better outcomes.

2.0 VAK Learning Style
There are consist of two learning style. There is VAK learning style and Honey and Mumford learning style. VAK is Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic. People who with visual learning style favoritism for seen or inspect things. For example: pictures, demonstrations, display, films, diagrams, handouts, and flip chat. Beside this, this person will always use the words like` let’s have a look at that’ ` show me’ or ` let’s have a look at that’. Apart from this, they will read the instructions or watching someone else do it first in order to be the best one when perform a new task. This people will write the instruction and direction in order to work from lists. Next, a person who with an auditory learning style, they have a preference for transfer the information by listening of the others people or self spoken, noise and sounds. These people will always use the words like `let’s talk it over’ or `tell me’. These kind of people will concentrate listening to the instructions and they also happy being given spoken instructions over the telephone and can remember all the words to songs that they hear in order to be the best one when perform a new task. Apart from this, the person with a kinaesthetic learning style, they will be interested with physical experience. For example like doing, holding, feeling, touching, practical hands on gaining the experiences. These people usually will use the words like `how do you feel? ‘Or `let me try.’ In the additional, they will going ahead and trying it out, learning as they go in order to be the best one when perform a new task. These kinds of people will rush to do the experiment hand-on and never look at the instructions first.

3.0 Honey and Mumford Learning Style
The second learning style is honey and Mumford learning style. This questionnaire be designed is help to find out your preferred learning style. Over the years you have probably developed learning “habits” that help you gain more from some experiences than from others. As you are most likely unconscious, this questionnaire will help you verify your learning preferences in order to having a greater understanding of those that suit the style of others and get a better position to select learning experiences that suit your style .

4.0 Learning Logs and Personal Development Plan
Nowadays, social and communication skills are a very important strategy around the globe. Social can helps community to bring up a lot of personalities and good characters. Social skill can be described as a skill that we use to communicate with each other, both verbally and non-verbally, through gestures, body language and image. Social skill can help you get more and better relationship. People who have a good relationship, he will get an easier, get promoted by someone and they can make more new friend. Another great factor to learn a social skill is it can help you reduce the negative effects of stress. Apart from this, you can get a great communication skill after you learn well in social skill. You will be able to involve yourself in any group work and you will be initiative to communicate with people. Beside this, if you are good in social skill, you will get many chances to attend those important meeting in your office or attend many party in your personal life. Thus, you can come into contact with more people through the meeting and party, maybe these people are of great help to your career. Apart from this, if you good in social, you will have greater efficiency to know how to reject those person or party you are not interested with it. Furthermore, people who are good in social, he will work well in a team and influences his teammate or motivate people to done something well. Moreover, you will be optimistic to look at everything, thus, you will increase the happiness. A smile or a ‘hello’ is a basic formed to start your social situation and lead you to a friendship.
Well, a communication skills is a skills which you can learn how to communicate with someone, clear speaking, body language, eye contact with the person to whom they are speaking too, and learn how to be a good listener and focused to the people who talking with you. There have variety categories of communication skills. There are consisting of spoken or verbal communication, non-verbal communication, and written communication. First and foremost, the spoken verbal communication skills are talk as face to face, telephone call, radio or television or other media. Next is the non-verbal communication skills, that is about your body language, gestures, how we dress or act - even our scent. The last one will be the written communication skills; it is a communication through writing a letters, communicates through using an e-mail or internet, books magazines or via others masses media. According to the communication theory, communication can be described as a communication channel for a speaker and the audience delivering their messages. Even though, the process of interpersonal communication cannot be regarded as phenomena which simply ‘happen'. However, it should be seen as a process of negotiation which between participants and role in this process, whether awareness or unawareness.

Speaker and audience are of course a significant in a communication. A very mysterious ways such as using the eye-contact and general body language will reflect what the speaker need to delivery for the audience. There have a variety profound ways that we communicate with others like the tone of our voice can give clues to our emotional state or mood. Meanwhile, a hand signals or gestures can add to a spoken message. Nowadays, we can update our status, write and publish our ideas on the Internet, which causes to a blowout of news and communication probability.

I wish to improve my social and communication skills in this semester. I have planned to communicate more with my colleagues during the class. Thus, I will try to relate with my colleagues while having group discussion. Moreover, social development is also supposed to be part of my personal development because it is important for my future work. I would like to involve myself in some charity activities and club activities which held in my university. Thus, I intended to work part time job in order to get contact of different races and augmented my knowledge. I wish that I can learn their mother language and I hope they are willing to teach me. Understanding of a variety of different languages is very helpful for my future work. The social and communication skill is extremely important for my future work. If I can improve both of the skills from now on, I will be enough confidence to speak in front of the masses, and I also will know how to present my best part while interview for a job in the future. The reason that I need to improve my social skill is because I feel am so shy to communicate with stranger. Thus, I don’t have many friends in my life. Apart from this, I have to contact with many people while I am work as part timer, and those people told me I looked very shy, gentle and quite. Furthermore, sometimes I will feel that I less of confident and not comfortable to talk or speak in front of masses, I will feel nervous to exposed my personal opinion. Sometimes, I will envy those people who have good relationship and a lot of best friend to share something no matter it is sadness or happiness, travel together, solves the problem together or party together. In the additional, sometimes I will feel I am a ‘loner’ and feel that there are nobody being with me when I need the support and help. All of this let me realize that social have a lot of benefit and it is a significant skill. For example, when a person is unemployed or facing of adversity, a good interpersonal relationship can play a significant role in this moment. You can get introduce or promoted by someone and maybe you can get a satisfied job. On the opposite side, the reason that I want to improve my communication skill is because I do not know how to communicate how to start a conversation with someone. I am that kind of passive people; I never take the initiative to talk, smile or say ’hello’ with someone. Beside this, I am not good in speaking English, so often I will feel shy or feel self-abased when somebody are using English communicate with me, because I do not know how to answer back by using English and I will be anxious to my grammar mistake make fun of others. Therefore, often I always choose not to communicate with others. Actually, when I am working as part timer, it is a best moment for me to improve my social and communication skill. Therefore, I will try to be initiative to talk with the customer, start the conversation by using humor. In the education aspect, I will like to share my opinion or decision with my group mates. Apart from this, I hope that I know how to cheer up people and I can be an optimism person to bring the happiness for the people around me. Consequently, I should learn how to communicate with people and know how to use the speaking skill when facing with different type people. Beside this, I will keep in touch with my fellow friends and being concern when my friend in a hard situation. In fact, social and communication is knowledge and there have some skills to use when talking with someone. First, I would like to show my basic manner while talking with people. For example like using the words thank you, good bye, nice to meet you or hello. Next, I will make a familiar eye contact and keep my smiling face to show I am interested on the topic with the person.

5.0 Johari Window
The Johari Window is a very useful instrument to let us find out our self-awareness, let us know that what kind of a self in the eyes of others. Beside this, another great factor of using Johari Window is we can accelerate the group’s relationship with others group. Next, we should know some history about The Johari Window. The Johari Window model was originated by two psychologists; they are Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, since 1955 at University of California Los Angeles. Nowadays, The Johari Window model is specified emphasis with in cooperation, behavior, interpersonal development and inter-group development. Apart from this, The Johari Window also useful for the understanding of employee and employer and to improve the relationship between employee and employer. The Johari Window model name is come from the first name of Luft and Ingham, which are Joe and Harry. In early, the name show in publication was called “JoHari”. After that, The Johari Window model became widely used for human to improve their interpersonal relationship, team development, communication, inter-group relationships and group dynamics and train for the self-awareness. Actually, The Johari Window model is being a delegation on feeling, views, motivation, experience, attitudes, skills and intentions. Furthermore, The Johari Window model also can be described as a communication model that used to improve understanding between humans. Apart from this, you can help your team mates to understand the value of self-disclosure, find out their own true nature, embrace them to give, and accept, constructive feedback. In the additional, The Johari Window model can help individuals to build a better relationship, more trust in others, solve those trouble problem, and work more effectively in a team. The Johari Window model consists of four quadrants. There referred to as open area, blind area, hidden area and unknown area. The first quadrant showing the stuff that what people know about you and what you know about yourself. This involve of your attitude, your knowledge, your behavior, skill or your history. The second quadrant is showing the thing that you do not know by yourself but know by others people. This involve of some simple information that you do not know or it also can include something hidden deeply inside your heart or often hard for individual direct to face it, but it can see by others people. For example like unworthy, rejection, feeling of insufficient, or inability. However, the third quadrant showing that the thing you know about yourself, and yet cannot seen by others people. Nevertheless, the last quadrant are showing that the unknown by you and the unknown by others people.
I had use The Johari Window to find out myself and more understanding myself. Me and my team members agree me is an adaptable, mature and silly person. I am the person who is easy to adapt to the new environment. For the example, last 2 years I had be selected to take part in National Services. I still remember that I selected to the camp which located in Sarawak. That is the first time for me to travel by plane to go to another place, a strange environment and a stranger place. Beside this, this was my first time and a very long time with my parents separated. There are no people I know or familiar inside my camp and I do extremely miss my parents and my friend, I almost collapsed that time. On that moment I told myself the only thing I can do is try to communicate with people, make some new friends. Furthermore, I force myself to adapt the environment and the daily routine. I constantly keep on tell myself the difficult days will soon be over. Furthermore, I also encourage my friend to think the positive way, comfort them when they are missing their family, take care my friend when they are getting sick, give some cheerful words or being humor to bring them happiness. Therefore, my friend would think I have a mature thinking and I am a silly person. However, the day by day in the past, I gradually to accustomed to be with my new friend and gradually like on the nature. At that time, I only realize that I already entirely on the environment. Furthermore, I meet up a lot of different races people, learned a lot of the local culture, and learned many different languages, experience an unprecedented experience. Since then, I will not complain that why I am the one who be selected to go for National Service, the contrary , I appreciated that I had gain an amazing and a great experiences among of my life. I will never ever forget what I had learned in the camp, who I had meet in the camp and what I had experience in the camp.
However, in the blind area, my friend think that I am a friendly, relaxed, trustworthy, patient, nervous, shy, kind and quite person. Some of my friend will find me chat or tell me their secret and share something privacy with me because they feel that I can keep the secret and often I will give some suggestion for them to solve the problem, so they feel I am trustworthy. Beside this, I will be patient when I am facing trouble or something unfair. Patient is also a knowledge that we should learn, sometimes take a step backward will make you get more. Apart from this, I will be nervous when having a presentation. I lack of confidence to speak in front of masses, I feel that my English grammar is not that good than others people. Sometimes, when I am walking on the street and saw a beggar, I will find some money inside my bag and donate to them. I will feel they are so miserable, so my friend will always said I am a kind person. Furthermore, my friend said I am a relaxed person. I agree with them. Yes, I am the one who like enjoy my life. Therefore, often I suffer with doing my assignment or after I work, I will give a reward for myself. For example, I will go eat something that I long time never been eat or something I like to eat, buy myself a luxury thing like a handbag or a watch and I will go for a trip or go travel some place that I love, because I feel that travel would widen my horizons, broaden my horizons. In additional, many people around me also tell me that I am a friendly person. They said I always willing to help others and do not fuss with others. Actually, I am the person who likes to meet new friend and hope to have a lot of friend. So often I will try to be friend with someone, because more a friend will better than more an enemies. On the other side, some of my team members said that I look so quiet, I think that is because of sometimes I did not share my opinion while having a group discussion. Meanwhile, I will feel shy to share my opinion with my team members, because I am not confident of my own work and I do not know what I had done is whether true or wrong.

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Well, in the hidden area, I feel that I am brave and cheerful person, but all of my friend around me do not know that. I always brave in try something new and love to challenges stimulate. For example, I was playing the flying fox when past two year I go to the National Service, I was gain a fantastic feel when I am jump out from the railway platform and ‘fly’ to the opposite side. Furthermore, I would like to jungle tracking at night, I feel very motive when inside the jungle at night. Beside this, you can hear the different sounds of insects or animals, gurgling sound of water and you can take a deep breath of fresh air. Therefore, you can enjoy the nature and relax with it. Apart from this, I feel that I am a cheerful person, I will always optimism to face any problem, and I will always keep my cheerful mood to ushering in a new day. I will always tell myself tomorrow will be better.
I am more understanding of myself due to The Johari Window model. Therefore, I wish to sharing my thing and show what I am hidden to my friend in order to reduce the blind area, hidden area and the unknown area. I will show my true self and my real character in front of people. Furthermore, I won’t be shy anymore to share out my thing and opinion with my group members, and I will always keep my cheerful mood no matter I am being with who. I want to let people know that I am a brave and cheerful person. The only you receive the feedback by your team members, your blind area will be reduce, meanwhile, your open area will be expanded. However, when The Johari Window model are using in a team context, the team members should be struggle to help others team members expand the open area in order to constructive the feedback. Another way for team members to help a person to expand the open area is ask some personal question. Only know how to understand a person's heart, team members only can help the person to expand the open area.

6.0 Conclusion
To the last, the social skill and the communication skill are extremely important nowadays. These both skills are very helpful and useful for your personal development and make you success in your career path. Actually, the social skills is directly related to the communication skill, because if you like to communicate with people or you are initiative to talk with someone, you sure will get know more friend through you communicate with someone. Naturally, your social circle will expand. Therefore, the person who are always good in communicate with people, he sure is great in manage the social situation. Meanwhile, the Johari Window model help me to more understanding of myself and more understanding with my team members and people around me. Furthermore, I know that what should I need to improve in my life, and how people looking at me, how they think of me. I had learnt what the benefit of social and communication skills bringing to me and find out myself through doing this assignment.

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...Your learning styles have more influence than you may realize There are three basic types of learning styles. The three most common are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. To learn, we depend on our senses to process the information around us. Most people tend to use one of their senses more than the others. Today's lesson will help you determine which of these learning styles you rely on the most. Visual Learner * take numerous detailed notes * tend to sit in the front * are usually neat and clean * often close their eyes to visualize or remember something * find something to watch if they are bored * like to see what they are learning * benefit from illustrations and presentations that use color * are attracted to written or spoken language rich in imagery * prefer stimuli to be isolated from auditory and kinesthetic distraction * find passive surroundings ideal Auditory learners * sit where they can hear but not where they need to pay attention to what is happening in front * may not coordinate colors or clothes, but can explain why they are wearing what they are wearing and why * hum or talk to themselves or others when bored * acquire knowledge by reading aloud * remember by verbalizing lessons to themselves Kinesthetic Learners * need to be active and take frequent breaks * speak with their hands and with gestures * remember what was done, but have difficulty recalling what was said...

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