English Learning Styles of High and Low Performance Students of the Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University

Abstract

Abstract Since English plays an important role, Thailand tries to emphasize on learning English to develop the potential of the country by finding ways to improve English of Thai students. Learning styles is one way proposing that different people learn in different ways and that it is good to know what your own preferred learning style is to be used to improve your learning abilities. The purposes of this research study were to investigate the English learning styles of students and to analyze the English learning styles of high and low performance students of the Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University. VARK questionnaires by Fleming and Mills were administered to undergraduate students. Besides, the interview was also conducted.The findings showed that the majority of undergraduate students preferred Kinesthetic (K) and Multimodal (MM) styles of learning to Read/Write (R), Auditory (A), and Visual (V) styles of learning. With performance, the high performance students rated themselves in the following order: K, MM, R, A, and V whereas low performance students were MM, K, R, A, and V.