AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENTS' LEARNING  STYLE PREFERENCES AND TEACHERS' TEACHING STYLE PREFERENCES IN  EFL CLASSROOMS:  GRADE 9 AND 11 STUDENTS  AND TEACHERS AT SHOA ROBIT SECONDARY PREPARATORY SCHOOL

MULU, WONDIMU

dc.contributor.author	MULU, WONDIMU
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-17T09:09:52Z
dc.date.available	2018-01-17T09:09:52Z
dc.date.issued	18-01-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/8527
dc.description.abstract	This quantitative descriptive study was designed with the aim of investigating the learning style preferences of EFL students and teaching style preferences of EFL teachers in the classroom at Shoa Robit Secondary Preparatory School. The participants of the study were 200 grade 9 and 11 students who were randomly selected from eleven sections using stratified random sampling techniques and the 6 teachers who are taught in grade 9 and 11. Among the 200 participants, 92 were females and 108 were males. This study looks specifically at the effect of age and sex on learning style preferences of the participant students. Finally, this study examined the match/mismatch between the students’ and teachers’ style preferences. Questionnaires and classroom observation were employed in order to generate the required data from the aforementioned research participants. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Tukey test, and T-test were used to analyze the data. The results from the descriptive statistics show that the participant student generally favor group, tactile-kinesthetic and visual learning styles as their major preferences; and auditory, and individual learning style categories as their minor and weak preferences respectively. The ANOVA and Tukey test results show statistically significant mean differences between the different learning styles categories. No difference in learning style preferences according to the ages of the students was found; the t-test results for sex difference indicate statistically significant differences between male and female students in the area of tactile-kinesthetic learning styles at t=(2.043) df=198 P=(0.042). As for the match and mismatch, both match and mismatch was observed between students and teachers. For instance, for visual and auditory styles, match was observed. And for tactile-kinesthetic, group, and individual styles mismatch was observed based on the classroom observation and the descriptive statistic results. Finally, in line with the findings recommendation, like teachers should make effort to teach in a way which matches the students’ preferred learning style and others were forwarded.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	English	en_US
dc.title	AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENTS' LEARNING STYLE PREFERENCES AND TEACHERS' TEACHING STYLE PREFERENCES IN EFL CLASSROOMS: GRADE 9 AND 11 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AT SHOA ROBIT SECONDARY PREPARATORY SCHOOL	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US