Learning Styles Adopted by Secondary Level Learners of English in Ilam

Abstract

The present thesis entitled Learning Styles Adopted by Secondary Level Learners of English in Ilam aimed to find out the learning styles adopted by secondary level learners of English in Ilam and to find out the personality differences in the use of learning styles in English classroom. Keeping the objectives in consideration, 70 English learners of secondary school from Danabari, Ilam were sampled through non-random purposive sampling procedure. A set of structured questionnaire was the tool of data collection. After analysis and interpretation of data, it has been found that majority of the students used visual learning styles and least of the students used field independent learning styles. Likewise, all of the learning styles mentioned in the questionnaire i.e. perceptual styles, introvert, extrovert, deductive, inductive, field independent and field dependent learning styles were found to be used by both 35 introvert and 35 extrovert learners with slight variation in the degree of use. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is introductory part which includes background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, chapter two includes the review of the related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study under which design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, study area/ site, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedures are mentioned. Likewise, chapter four includes analysis and interpretation of results and summary of the findings. Chapter five includes conclusions and recommendations .The recommendation is classified into policy related, practice related and further research related. Finally, the references and appendices are included.