The significance of knowing preferred learning styles in primary foreign language learning

• Autor(a) principal: Florença, Ema Freitas
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/21777
• topic: Learning styles; Primary education; English as a foreign language; Teaching approaches; Estilos de aprendizagem,; Ensino primário; Inglês como língua estrangeira; Abordagens de ensino; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas

In an attempt to search for ways to help me as a teacher and to do my job in helping students how to learn a foreign language, this report describes a project which investigated how learning styles can contribute to that objective in primary education. For this purpose, a learning style questionnaire was administered to all 18 students in the study, to determine their learning style. Furthermore, a teacher’s diary was kept to register any important events, reactions, thoughts, as well as weekly reflections for the supervisor. Afterwards, activities were adopted to meet students’ preferences and thus enhance their potential for success. The results indicated that students have more than one learning style and it is thus important to vary activities to successfully reach all students’ expectations. This is of great importance for me as a teacher, especially when I am selecting activities and planning lessons.