LEARNING STYLES OF STUDENT-TEACHERS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENTS IN SOME FACULTIES OF EDUCATION WITH RESPECT TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING

Abstract

This study has sought to discover the learning styles of frehman senior students at English Language Teaching Departments in some Faculties of Education to see whether learning styles exhibit dramatic differences between freshman and senior students and to investigate whether these styles are inherent or can be affected by learning experiences. It has further aimed to determine whether certain learning styles are especially important in foreign language learning. The research sample consists of 812 freshman and senior students attending English Language Teaching Departments in D.E.U., G.U. and Ç.O.M.U. who were selected as subjects randomly. The ILS questionnaire developed by Richard Felder and Barbara Solomon 1996 was used in order to survey the learning style preferences of the participants

Keywords

• Language learning
• learning styles
• school achievement
• learning experience

20 BAZI EĞİTİM FAKÜLTELERİNİN İNGİLİZCE ÖĞRETMENLİĞİ BÖLÜMÜNDE OKUYAN ÖĞRENCİLERİN ÖĞRENME STİLLERİNİN YABANCI DİL ÖĞRENİMİ VE ÖĞRETİMİ İLE İLİŞKİSİ

Öz

Bu çalışma İngilizce Öğretmenliği bölümünde okuyan birinci ve dördüncü sınıf öğrencilerinin öğrenme stillerinin belirlenmesi ve aralarında belirgin farkların olup olmadığının ortaya çıkarılması ve bu stillerin doğuştan mı yoksa öğrenme deneyimlerinden mi etkilendiğini bulmak için yapıldı. Diğer bir amacı da belirli stillerin öğrencilerin ders başarılarını etkileyip etkilemediğinin araştırılmasıydı. Örneklem grubunu gelişigüzel seçilen,D.E.U., G.U. ve Ç.O.M.U. Eğitim Fakültelerindeki İngilizce Öğretmenliği bölümünde okuyan 812 birinci ve dördüncü sınıf öğrencileri oluşturmuştur. Öğrencilerin öğrenme stillerini belirlemek için Richard Felder ve Barbara Solomon 1996 tarafından geliştirilen Index of Learning Styles -Öğrenme Stilleri Ölçeği kullanılmıştır

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Dil öğrenimi
• öğrenme stilleri
• okul başarısı
• öğrenme deneyimi

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