Students' Background Diversity, Their VAK Learning Style and Lectures Teaching Strategies

As it is seen everywhere, many learners are interested in studying English-whether it is because they want to or because they need to. Those learners come from different countries with different races, cultures, occupations, and economic levels. Therefore, the researcher is interested to analyze about how lecturers as the educators treat the students in the class, especially in University of Riau Kepulauan, Batam, Indonesia. The aim of this study is to explore how the lecturers see the diverse background of the students as an additional value in teaching them with the given material. As a result, the lecturers need to have some teaching strategies to maintain a well-organized class. Furthermore, the classes in this campus are held in evening session and most of the students are workers. Based on these facts, there are some challenges that are faced by the lecturers to have a cooperative teaching learning process. Moreover, the lecturers also need to be creative in delivering the teaching materials so that the students can understand more in such circumstances. At last, this study also analyzes what kind of learning strategies that their students have. Particularly, the researcher wants to find out what are the students VAK learning styles; which stands for Visual, Audio, and Kinesthetic Learning Styles. Do they prefer to study by using visual material, more on listening, or more in practice part? This is also part of lecturers' challenge whether do lecturers provide specific material or certain strategies to support these students' learning styles or not.