Revisiting High School Students’ Learning Styles in English Subject
Abstract
The prime motive for this endeavor was to explore the tenth grade English class students’ preferred learning styles studying in government secondary school so that English subject teachers could tailor their pedagogical strategies in relation to their students learning needs. Further aim of this study was to identify any significance difference among the students on gender basis, area basis and different categories of school basis. The population of this study consisting of all the secondary level schools working in the government sector and positioned in the province of Punjab. The multi stage cluster sampling method was employed while selecting the study sample from the population. The scale used for the identification of students’ learning styles in this study was developed by Grasha-Riechmann. The data collected through learning style scale was analyzed by employing descriptive statistics technique. The results from data analysis depict that learning styles of the majority of students found to be Collaborative and Competitive. Overall, no considerable difference was surfaced between male-female, urban-rural, general-other categories of 10th grade English class students learning styles
Authors
Dr. Mubushra Khalid
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education & Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Aroona Hashmi
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education & Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Tariq Hussain
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education & Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Learning style, Learning style scale, Grade, Government sector