Researching the Foreign Language Learning Styles of Students in Different Departments

Abstract

This research has been carried out to determine language learning styles of college students’ in different sections and to determine how to teach it better. Population of the study is Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, while the sample group is composed of students studying at Physical Education and Sports and Classroom Teaching departments. Research data have been collected through written sources and survey method. The questionnaire has been applied to the students of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade classes randomly only after its understandability, scope validity and reliability have been tested. In this way, the research has included a total of 199 students, 93 of whom study at Physical Education and Sport, while 106 of whom are classroom teaching students. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the questionnaire has been found 0.65. This is a current value of a coefficient according to the researchers. After the collected data have been coded in an appropriate statistical environment, frequency (f), percent (%), cross-tables have been applied as statistical operations, and to test the differences chi-square (X2) operation has been conducted. As a result of the operation, to determine (%) distributions and to detect differences in opinions for each question, comments have been made upon by accepting 0.05 as confidence interval. In conclusion, we can say that students, in general, learn better by reading, talking, listening, writing, through visual items and solving examples and we can also say that current English teaching method is not efficient according to the collected data.