2022 IJRSE – Volume 11 Issue 12
Available Online: 14 May 2022
Author/s:
Geleta, Aliye*
Department of English Language and Literature, Wollega University, Ethiopia (aliye.geleta@yahoo.com)
Teshome, Zeleke
Wollega University, Ethiopia
Zewdie, Mekuria
Wollega University, Ethiopia
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Compatibility between EFL learners’ preferred learning styles and teachers’ teaching styles: Colleges of Teachers’ Education (henceforth CTE) in Oromia. Two research questions were set to identify the preferred instructional styles of both parties. Under a mixed research approach, a descriptive survey design was employed to achieve the objectives. For this effect, all 3rd year students of the English language department and their teachers of the 2021 academic year were taken using a comprehensive sampling technique and participated in the study. These groups were used as sources of both quantitative and qualitative data. To collect quantitative data, two sets of questionnaires, one of which was used to identify students’ preferred learning styles and the other to identify teachers’ teaching style/s, were utilized. For this effect, Reid’s (1987) perceptual learning style preference questionnaire (PLSPQ) which was further developed in a way it suits to inspect teachers’ teaching styles were used in the investigation of the styles of both groups. The findings, in general, revealed that when the CTE EFL learners’ dominant learning styles were ‘visual’ and ‘group’ styles, teachers’ teaching styles were found to be ‘auditory’ though ‘group’ teaching style was also in place to some extent. It could be concluded that there is a mismatch between how EFL students want to learn [learning styles] and how their teachers teach them [teaching styles]. The findings of the study have implications for EFL teachers’ teaching methods, material developers and research endeavors.
Keywords: teaching styles, learning styles, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, individual, group styles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2022.318
Cite this article:
Geleta, A., Teshome, Z., & Zewdie, M. (2022). A study on the compatibility between EFL learners’ preferred learning styles and teachers’ teaching styles: Colleges of teachers’ education in Oromia, Ethiopia. International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 11(12), 13-25. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2022.318
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