The Role of Students' Learning Styles in Enhancing Classroom Instruction
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2016-03-07
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University of Eloued جامعة الوادي
Abstract
EFL students usually feel lost in many courses because they come to university with
their traditional learning habits, such as relying on the teacher's handouts and his
explanations. However, since 2004, students have not been seen as recipients of
knowledge and information. The LMD model has led to irrevocable changes,
especially in the learner's role: the learner has become a real knowledge-seeker. To
help these students to cope with English language classes and to achieve better, the
present study employed a questionnaire to find answers to the question, "What
kind/type of learners are you?" Our hypothesis starts from the assumption that an
awareness of the learners' learning styles is very beneficial. This study singled out
three categories of learning styles from a group of thirty (30) first year students. The
analysis of the results enabled the researchers to elicit the respondents' reactions
and feelings about the discovery of their categories as EFL learners. The results show
that students really need to discover their learning styles so as to build their own
learning strategies
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THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, MIND AND LEARNER'S COGNITIVE CAPACITIES March, 7th/8th 2016 University of Eloued
Keywords
EFL students, the LMD model, the learner's role, the learners' learning styles, learning strategies