The learning styles used by state and private secondary school students’ in English course - Adana province example in Turkey-


Çiloğulları S., Kutlu M. O., Yılmaz C., Akman P.

Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences , cilt.15, sa.2, ss.659-664, 2021 (ESCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 15 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Dergi Adı: Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), EMBASE
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.659-664
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The most important point about education is to be conscious about education and learning activities. It is extremely necessary for teachers and students to be conscious about the educational process and the activities they perform individually in this process. At this point, the most basic concept encountered is the learning styles. For this reason, the aim of this research is to analyze the learning styles used by the students of secondary official and private schools. This research is a study of a descriptive survey model.  The research group is located in Adana and was selected according to an ‘appopriate sampling method. There were a total of 354 students mixed of the official and private secondary stage school. In this research, Learning Styles Scale " developed by Gökdağ (2004) was used as a data collection tool. Also Kolb’s Learning Styles III ‘with 12 semi-structured questions developed by Gencel (2006) was used. According to the results of the analysis; there is a siginificant difference to be found with the 5th and 8th grade students from the official secondary stage school in part of visual learning style, auditory learning style, concrete experience, abstract conceptualisation, active experimentation, reflective obersavtion. According to the school types there is a significant difference to be found of 5th grade students in part of kinesetic learning style, concrete experience, abstract conceptualisation, active experimentation and reflective observation. Whereas for the 8th grade students there is just a significant difference to be found for concrete experience.