An Analysis of Foreign Language Learning Styles from the Cognitive Perspective

From the 1970s,learning styles began to enter the domain of foreign language learning researches.Foreign language learning style is often regarded as a significant factor attributing to individual differences among language learners.Nowadays,many researchers begin studying individual learners’characteristics and exploring how different learners interact with external factors from cognitive perspective.The field-independence/dependence construct became a focus.Based on previous studies,the paper is committed to analyzing the nature of FID learners.It is expected that this research can establish a well-grounded basis for following studies.     

Relationships between Learning Styles and Online Learning

This paper examines research on learning styles as related to online learning for adult learners. There is much disagreement regarding the definition of learning style. This paper defines it as an individual's preferred way of learning. The focus is on the extent to which learning styles are able to predict student success (e.g., grades, attitudes). The paper discusses nine different instruments that were used in various studies. Curry's model, which uses the metaphor of the layers of an onion, is used to categorize the instruments by theme for the sake of comparison. Criticisms of learning style research include: the vagueness of the construct “learning style”; the fact that the instruments are self‐assessments; mixed results from research that searched for a relationship with online learning; and the difficulty of comparing different studies when online learning can include many different methods and technologies. Finally, I reach a conclusion regarding the suitability of studying the relationship of learning styles and success in online courses.     

Diverse Approaches to the Diversity of Learning Styles in Teacher Education

The goal of this paper is to present the findings of a new research project on teacher candidates' learning style preferences and the implications thereof for their teaching styles. The researchers utilized two different learning‐style assessment instruments based on Dunn and Dunn's learning style model—one paper and pencil and one online learning style assessment instrument to identify course participants' learning styles. Within the same institution of higher education, the learning style concept was introduced and operationalized in two different ways. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, teacher candidates' individual and group learning style profiles and their reflections on their own learning and teaching styles are discussed.     

英语学习者的感知学习风格和词汇策略研究

本文根据Reid的感知学习风格和Schmitt的词汇学习策略分类,通过问卷调查方式,调查了128位高职英语学习者的感知学习风格倾向和词汇学习策略运用特点及两者的相关性。研究结果表明:该群体最倾向于独立和视觉风格而最不倾向于合作型学习风格;最常用记忆、认知策略而少用元认知和社会策略;感知学习风格影响学习策略的选择,风格与策略多处显著相关。     

音体美学生英语学习风格调查

学习风格是影响学习者学习效率和学习成绩的一个重要个体因素。本文以长江师范学院的二年级音体关学生为调查对象,采用Reid的学习风格倾向问卷（PLSP）,研究艺体类学生的一般性学习风格、专业与学习风格、性别与学习风格的关系和风格与英语成绩的关系。调查表明,二年级的音体美学生最倾向于小组型学习风格,性别与学习风格的听觉型有显著关系,但是,学习风格与成绩的相关性不大。     

On Gender Differences in Language Learning Styles

Language learning style, serving as one of the elements of individual differences in foreign language learning, has substantial significance of research for EFL teaching. Males' and females' language learning styles are quite different. This paper illustrates the gender differences in language learning styles from sensory, cognitive and personality perspectives, and offers some suggestions for EFL teaching.     

高职学生学习风格与英语成绩关系研究

在回顾前人对学习风格研究的基础上,对五所高级职业技术学院195名学生的学习风格与综合英语成绩及单项英语成绩的关系进行了研究。独立样本检验显示,高分组的学习者倾向于群体型的学习风格,而低分组的学习者倾向于个体型和场独立型的学习风格;男生和女生只在听觉型和场依赖型两种学习风格上表现出不同;回归分析结果表明,群体型、个体型和场独立型三种学习风格与综合英语测试成绩相关,个体型和冲动型两种学习风格对英语成绩具有负向预测作用;群体型、个体型、场独立和冲动型四种学习风格与单项成绩之间具有显著相关关系。     

English Learning Styles and English Achievements of Students Majoring in P.E.,Art and Music

Learning styles are considered as an important individual difference of affecting learning efficiency and English achievements.This research focuses on the sophomores whose majors are Physical Education (P.E.),Art and Music (P.A.M.students) in Yangtze Normal University to investigate into total learning styles,the relationships concerning major,English achievement respectively with learning styles.The results show that participants prefer group learning style rather than auditory learning style;there is no possible links between learning styles and their majors,and English achievements.     

Mapping the Learning Styles “Jungle”: An overview of the literature based on citation analysis

Educationists and researchers who consider the use of the learning style concept to address individual differences in learning are often daunted by the multitude of definitions, models, and instruments. It is difficult to make an informed choice. The confusion with cognitive style, a term often used as a synonym, makes it even more complicated. Reviews of the literature give some direction, but there are a number of arguments why the available reviews raise new problems. In this paper, citation analysis is presented as a technique to develop an alternative organisation of the learning style and cognitive style literature. Application of this technique results in a review that clarifies dominant theoretical orientations in the literature, is helpful to identify the relative impact of different orientations, and helps to illuminate their interrelationships. As such, this alternative review of the literature can serve as a roadmap for novices to the styles field.     

学习风格与外语教学

学习风格是影响外语教学的一个重要因素。从分析学习风格的定义及分类出发,区分学习风格与认知风格,简要介绍学习风格的特征,指出学习风格研究对英语教学具有的研究价值及启示,对如何将学习风格理论与英语教学有机结合提出具体的方法与策略。     

农村高三学生英语感知学习风格之调研

对农村高三学生的英语感知学习风格进行的调查结果分析显示:农村高三学生喜欢多种英语感知学习风格,最喜欢动手学习风格,最不喜欢单独学习风格;女生比男生更喜欢听觉学习和体验学习风格;英语水平对感知学习风格没有显著性影响;动手学习风格和写作技能有一定的相关性。英语教师应根据学生的感知学习风格灵活应用多种教学方法,指导学生调整和丰富多种感知学习风格以促进教与学的协调发展。     

关于学习方式类型划分的思考

科学把握学习方式的类型是落实学习方式多样化的一个关键问题。现行关于学习方式类型的看法并没有建立在科学划分的基础之上。对于学习方式类型的把握,应在分析学习方式的实质的基础上,从分析影响学习方式的变量入手,并遵循科学分类应有明确的标准以及从多个维度进行分类的原则。     

What can Learning Styles Research Learn from Cognitive Psychology?

People differ from each other in the manner in which they process information from the world. These individual differences are called learning styles’. The purpose of this paper is to explore how research in this field can benefit from certain findings in cognitive psychology. Following a review of some difficulties which afflict research on learning styles (e.g. inadequate construct validation of measures), attention is drawn to two relevant findings in cognitive research: the influence of prior knowledge on learning and the potential value to learners of ‘metacognitive’ awareness. Some implications of these findings for learning styles research are then discussed.     

语言学习风格研究和大学英语教师、教材与教法

对学习者个体差异的研究,成了当代外语教学研究的重要课题.而语言学习风格是学习者个体差异的一项重要内容.研究语言学习风格及其同语言教学的关系,在全球化语境下,对大学英语教师、教材与教法具有指导和实践意义.     

如何弥补教师教学风格与学生学习风格之间的差异

弥补教师教学风格与学生学习风格之间的差异对完善英语教学有重要意义.要缩小二者的差异,教师应先认真了解学生的各种学习风格,再根据这些学习风格来调整自己的教学风格,开展多种多样的教学活动以满足学生的需求.同时,要积极鼓励学生尝试不同的学习风格.当教学风格与学习风格二者相适时,教师就可以很好地辅助学生成为成功的语言学习者.     

Matching Cognitive Styles to Computer-based Instruction: An Approach for Enhanced Learning in Electrical Engineering

An approach aimed at enhancing learning by matching individual students' preferred cognitive styles to computer-based instructional (CBI) material is presented. This approach was used in teaching some components of a third-year unit in an electrical engineering course at the Queensland University of Technology. Cognitive style characteristics of perceiving and processing information were considered. The bimodal nature of cognitive styles (analytic/imager, analytic/verbalizer, wholist/imager and wholist/verbalizer) was examined in order to assess the full ramification of cognitive styles on learning. In a quasi-experimental format, students' cognitive styles were analysed by cognitive style analysis (CSA) software. On the basis of the CSA results the system defaulted students to either matched or mismatched CBI material. The consistently better performance by the matched group suggests potential for further investigations where the limitations cited in this paper are eliminated. Analysing the differences between cognitive styles on individual test tasks also suggests that certain test tasks may better suit certain cognitive styles.     

成人外语学习风格初探

成人外语学习风格是影响成人外语教学的主要因素，近年来受到了外语教师和外语教学研究的广泛关注。在论述学习风格理论及要素的基础上，概述了我国成人外语学习风格的研究现状，同时提出了成人外语教学中学习风格的优化策略。     

多元智能、学习风格与高职学习者英语能力的相关性研究

文章以实证研究的方法对高职学习者的英语能力与多元智能、学习风格的相关系数结果进行分析讨论。用Spss16．0对107名高职学习者的多元智能、学习风格进行描述性分析、平均数多重比较及与英语能力的相关性检验,调查结果显示：人际交往、内省智能分别是高职学习者最显著的两项智能,独立风格是最受欢迎的学习风格;多元智能与学习风格在学习过程中相互作用、影响,多处存在显著差异;受试群体的英语能力与人际智能负相关、与内省智能正相关,与动手、体验型风格正相关。     

Gaining Insight into Business Telecommunications Students Through the Assessment of Learning Styles

The assessment of student learning styles can be of significant value for developing and evaluating an appropriate mix of pedagogical techniques and activities. With this in mind, learning style preferences were collected from over 300 undergraduate business telecommunications students. These set of data show that a breadth of learning style profiles are exhibited by undergraduate business telecommunications students. Most importantly, this article demonstrates a process to evaluate whether or not the current course structure either favors or disadvantages any particular learning style profile. Because there are many learning style profiles present, the evidence that no single profile is disadvantaged gives the instructor confidence in the mix of pedagogical techniques and activities that are employed in this particular course.     

Learning Styles and Training and Development in Work Settings: lessons from educational research

Abstract While human resource development (HRD) practioners are interested in learning style, there has been relatively little empirical research in work settings. This paper reviews the research on the interaction effect of learning style and the learning style orientation of the learning environment on learning outcomes, and discusses how the findings from educational research can inform training and development practice. The need for more research in work settings is discussed and the dearth of valid and reliable measures of cognitive (learning) style that can be easily administered to employees is considered as a factor which may have inhibited research The advantages and disadvantages of a number of measures that could be used in work settings are discussed.