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Relative effects of proficiency and class types on perceptual learning styles of Korean university EFL students

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relative effects of proficiency and class types onperceptual learning styles of Korean university EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students. 61 students from a women’s university in Korea participated in the study; 31 students fromEnglish Conversation (EC) class and 30 students from Business English (BE) class. Statisticaltests revealed kinesthetic learning style to be the most preferred learning style by both classes. Auditory and visual styles were the least preferred styles by EC and BE respectively. A multipleregression analysis that investigates the relative effects of proficiency and class types onperceptual learning styles revealed that BE significantly increases the initial level of preferencefor visual and group learning styles (intercept effect) relative to EC but preference for those twostyles drops dramatically relative to EC as proficiency gets higher (slope effect) to the extentthat the preference effect is erased out. Finally, pedagogical implications are discussedpertaining to the results of the current study.

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relative effects of proficiency and class types onperceptual learning styles of Korean university EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students. 61 students from a women’s university in Korea participated in the study; 31 students fromEnglish Conversation (EC) class and 30 students from Business English (BE) class. Statisticaltests revealed kinesthetic learning style to be the most preferred learning style by both classes. Auditory and visual styles were the least preferred styles by EC and BE respectively. A multipleregression analysis that investigates the relative effects of proficiency and class types onperceptual learning styles revealed that BE significantly increases the initial level of preferencefor visual and group learning styles (intercept effect) relative to EC but preference for those twostyles drops dramatically relative to EC as proficiency gets higher (slope effect) to the extentthat the preference effect is erased out. Finally, pedagogical implications are discussedpertaining to the results of the current study.

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