Pre-service teachers' perceptions about their own learning styles

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate pre-service teachers’ perceptions of their own learning styles. The study was carried out with 144 pre-service teachers. Participants of the study were instructed about learning styles and also the features of the visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles were explained in depth. Pre-service teachers were asked openended questions regarding what might be the most appropriate learning style to them. The data were coded and grouped under relevant categories. The findings indicated that most of the preservice teachers believe that they have visual (49.8%) learning style. 28.9 percent of the preservice teachers perceive themselves as kinesthetic and 23.3 percent of them are of the opinion that they are auditory. Besides, some of the pre-service teachers have also expressed that they have more than one learning style

Keywords

• Learning styles, pre-service teachers, learning

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