Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines (Dec 2018)
The Most Typical Learning Styles used in 9th Grade School and University
Abstract
Learning a foreign language is not always an easy task. There are many components that play a vital role in the whole process. Among the most important ones we can mention the learning styles used by the learners themselves. As we know, the way students learn a foreign language varies from one to the other. As teachers, knowing more about their leaning styles helps considerably in the acquisition and learning of the foreign language by our students. More specifically, the aim of this study is to find out what learning styles result to be the most typical in learning English language. For this purpose we chose two different levels of education in order to see if there would be any difference in the learning styles applied namely the 8th grade and the 3rd year in “Aleksander Moisiu” University. A questionnaire containing 30 statements, which covered a wide range of learning styles namely: visual, tactile, auditory, group, kinesthetic and individual was administered to them and quantitative techniques were used in order to analyze the data. As was expected, there were certain differences concerning the major and minor learning styles used by the two groups surveyed. Recommendations for further research and implications of the findings will also be part of the article.
