ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN İNGİLİZCE ÖĞRENİMİ: BAĞIMLI VE BAĞIMSIZ ÖĞRENENLER

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to apply the Perceptual Learning Style Preference Questionnaire (PLSQ) developed by Reid (1984), which measures 6 learning types, to students in the university's foreign language department. In the questionnaire, there are 6 sub-dimensions related to visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, individual and group learning styles. In accordance with the literature, those who can read and understand the topic of instruction in a book on their own are called independent learners, and those who can understand a topic with the help of another person (e.g., teacher) are called dependent learners. Individual learning items in the questionnaire were interpreted in terms of independent learners and group learning items in terms of dependent learners The study examined questionnaire items related to individual or group study, dependent and independent learning, gender, and hand use. The study also examined the relationship between responses to the individual and group learning items, which are sub-dimensions of the questionnaire, and the independent and dependent learning variable from the control questions. A total of 206 students from different classes in the English Language and Literature Department (ELL) voluntarily participated in the study in 2019. Internal reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha (Table 2). For other calculations, mean, standard deviation, confirmatory factor analysis, Mann-Whitney U, and Shapiro Wilk tests were used. A relationship was found between some subfactors of PLPQ and the variables gender, hand use, study style and dependent and independent learners. It has been suggested that different and original studies can be conducted by adding new control questions to the current questionnaires and scales.