Learning Styles of Young Learners in the Learning Process of a Foreign Language

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Pages: 145-152

Abstract:

The importance of learning styles in the learning process of a foreign language is reflected in many observations of educationalists for the need to adapt any teaching material in a way that addresses learners’ learning styles. Teachers in early childhood education must understand the diversity of learning styles in the classroom environment. Since each child is likely to have a different learning style, young learners need a variety of lesson plans and activities to engage the entire class. Understanding how they learn will make it easier to create appropriate lesson plans for the educational program. Although different learning styles might develop as young learners get older, they will generally learn in one of three ways: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. The purpose of this study is to identify preferred perceptual learning styles of young learners. To accomplish this aim, a questionnaire was delivered to 66 young learners in a public school in Korça, Albania to measure the students’ preferred learning styles when they learn a foreign language which is English. The analysis of the data revealed very important results which will be useful to teachers in their language teaching process.

Keywords:

learning style, young learners, a foreign language, visual style, auditory style, kinesthetic style

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