Original article | International Journal of Language and Education Research 2024, Vol. 6(3) 48-76
Learning Styles of General Foundation Programme Students: Basis For Enhanced Teaching Methodology
Rosanna Manalo, Amabelle Olıva Enanorıa & Raiya Al Mahruqi
pp. 48 - 76 | Manu. Number: MANU-2409-22-0003
Published online: December 29, 2024 | Number of Views: 6 | Number of Download: 17
Abstract
Primordial to educators is to ensure that quality learning takes place -- unleash students’ potentials by their own capacity and interests. The study aims to determine the students’ learning styles and correlate to propose teaching methodologies. In a descriptive-evaluative method, 67 respondents from GFP-Gulf College, Sultanate of Oman AY 2020-2021 participated in a web-administered- 24-statement- instrument of VAK learning style of Neil Fleming (Fleming, 2001). Frequency-Percentages profiled the students into gender and mode of study; performed two-sample-t-test to obtain mean-difference- of learning styles’ scores by Gender and Mode of Study; Kendall’s-Tau-b to correlate gender and study-mode to learning style; & Partial Correlation to relate gender and learning styles removing study-mode effect. Students are mostly visual learners particularly females. Males are auditory- oriented. Morning respondents are visual learners while evening respondents are visual- and auditory -combined. In visual and kinesthetic style, gender does not matter but in auditory learning, it does. Morning and evening study-modes do not differ in visual and kinesthetic learning but vary in auditory style. Evening students use auditory learning thus study-mode is statistically related to auditory learning. Controlling for the study-mode effect, gender to some extent affect auditory and kinesthetic learners. Males and females do not differ in visual and kinesthetic but vary in auditory. Association of gender and study-mode to auditory learning is significantly weak. Regardless of gender and mode of study, auditory or visual styles are preferred. Removing study-mode effect, there are more male-auditory learners. Determining learning style is an advantage for differing teaching strategies.
Keywords: learning style, learning preferences, teaching methodology, visual, kinesthetic, auditory
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