Student Learning Style

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Statement of problem: learning styles are important for consideration in educational process of academic world.
Learning styles are innate and it affects student learning process.
As we know, we have different kinds of learning style such as: aural, visual, oral, kinesthetic, pictorial and etc.
In this context, student achievement is related to the learning style. Understanding students' learning style is important factor can affect their achievement .
The potential concern is whether technological devices such as computer assisted instruction (CAI) in classroom can operate effectively, practically and pedagogically.
However with great potential of computer in teaching and learning foreign language, there is no technical movement has been …show more content…

In this study learning style is operationalized through the applying the VARK (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic) questionnaire administered by Fleming and Mills, (1992).
According to Richards and Schmit(2002,p111) : Computer assisted instruction (CAI )is defined as:” The use of a computer in a teaching program.. In this research ,among all existed technologies in the area of CAI, the researcher chooses video-projector technology.
Language Achievement: According to Richard and Schimt(2002,p284) Language achievement is defined as: “A learner’s mastery, in a SECOND LANGUAGE and FOREIGN LANGUAGE, of what has been taught or learned over a period of instruction”.
The researcher will assess learners’ achievement through a teacher made achievement test.

Limitation and delimitation:
Limitation:
In order to have more reliable result, the researcher will need more participants to select ,but the main problem is an unavailability of participant on the intermediated level
Also lack of suitable institution is undeniable.
In addition permission of such institution is factor need to be …show more content…

60 participants will be select based on OPT scale.
At the second section, the researcher will apply VARK questionnaire to the 60 EFL intermediated learner at Soroosh institute ,
The learner s will answer the questions in 20 minutes and after that the researcher will collect the data and recognize how many of learners prefer visual learning style and how many of them are prefer aural learning style. And after that the researcher will put all data in SPSS to find the percentage of those visual and aural learners and will divide them into 2 group. The VARK questionnaire include 16 multiple choice questions, each of questions has 4 options to be choose. A, B, C, D.
At the next stage there is scoring chart, in scoring chart the learners should circle the letter that correspond to their answers.
After apply ing Questionnaire, The researcher will apply posttest and pretest to the 2 group of learners, the researcher will select 30 participants in Aural category, and other 30 participant in visual category. The researcher will apply posttest and pretest to each group of learners

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