THE ROLE OF LEARNING STYLES IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS' LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE

Awareness of students' preferred learning style may help language teachers identify, develop and improve teaching strategies (such as forms of interaction) likely to bring about students' excellent performance. If you are an analytic learner, you are unlikely to feel comfortable doing a language activity which involves a lot of unstructured, spontaneous speech without any concern for grammatical correctness. Reflective learners may not fare so well in purely conversational classes and auditory learners will probably want to avoid a course with a heavy reading requirement. The new framework of best practices must approach the question of learning styles and modes of interactions in terms of quality assurance in order to help students by designing instructions that meet the needs of individuals with different stylistic preferences and by teaching students how to improve their language competences and achieve performance.