Open AccessIs It Possible for Teachers to Teach Less and for Learners to Learn More? Exploring Learning Styles and Strategies in the Second Language Classroom
Author(s) -
Mihaela Gotcu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
linguaculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2285-9403
pISSN - 2067-9696
DOI - 10.47743/lincu-2013-4-2-293
Subject(s) - mathematics education , psychology , style (visual arts) , collation , foreign language , learning styles , english as a foreign language , pedagogy , focus group , ninth , linguistics , philosophy , physics , marketing , acoustics , business , archaeology , history
The objective of this article is to illustrate how secondary students’ learning style awareness can lead to improving and expanding foreign language learning strategies, increasing self-confidence as well as motivation to learn English. The research was conducted on a number of 116 ninth and tenth graders at Colegiul Național “Emil Racoviță” of Iași, 58 of whom were part of a working group and 58 were the control group. The methodology consisted in applying questionnaires pre-manipulation and post-manipulation as well as pre- and post-manipulation focus group discussions. The data collation highlighted the great importance of the teachers’ taking into account the learners’ learning style preferences , learning efficiency and the learners ’ personal development.