Performance and Styles in English Language Learning
Keywords:
Performance, Style, Language LearningAbstract
This study identified the learning styles in English language learning of Grade-8 students of Wright II District in the school year 2017-2018. Descriptive data were collected to determine the learning styles of grade 8 students and correlation analysis was used to assess the relationship between the learning styles of the respondents and their profile. Individual learning style had a significantS relationship with the respondents’ profile in terms of their father’s highest educational attainment with the p-value of 0.011, lesser than the level of significance at 0.05. These results led to the rejection of the null hypothesis that there is no significant relationship between the learning styles in English language learning and the student-respondents’ profile. The rest of the learning styles like auditory, kinesthetic and visual showed no significant relationship with the student-respondents’ profile. Grade-8 students from above average, average and poor group proved to be different in styles in English language learning, this led to the conceptualization of the proposed learning styles and strategies and the teaching methods appropriate to the kind of learners. It can be concluded that in designing methods into language teaching, this should be at the level of learning of the students. It is important that the teacher is aware as to who are going to receive the instruction in order to design the appropriate methods and to choose the kind of materials that are needed in the instruction for an efficient and effective teaching and learning to happen. For the recommendation, parents should be made aware about the different kinds of learning styles to help their child learn best.
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