Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch?

It has been acknowledged that teacher and student diversity in the classroom have led to varied teaching and learning styles preferences. Previous studies have generally looked at teaching styles or learning styles in isolation and have rarely considered the impact of teaching styles on learning sty...

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Main Authors: Lee, Mei Ph’ng, Thang, Siew Ming, Nambiar, Radha M. K.
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spelling my.utem.eprints.230642021-07-07T08:54:20Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/23064/ Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch? Lee, Mei Ph’ng Thang, Siew Ming Nambiar, Radha M. K. L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education It has been acknowledged that teacher and student diversity in the classroom have led to varied teaching and learning styles preferences. Previous studies have generally looked at teaching styles or learning styles in isolation and have rarely considered the impact of teaching styles on learning styles or vice versa. This study extends this one step further by first establishing the learning styles of a group of engineering students and then investigating the impact of the teaching styles of their Technical Communication teacher on them in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) context. Specifically it explores whether accommodation or resistance arises when there is a mismatch in teaching and learning styles. The respondents were 5 Malaysian engineering undergraduates from two engineering faculties of a public university. Data from students were collected using Felder and Silverman’s Index of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire, student interviews and reflective journals. Teaching styles of the teacher were identified using Grasha and Reichmann’s Teaching Style Survey. The findings revealed that the students and the teacher have mixed learning styles and teaching styles preferences respectively. In addition, the teachers’ teaching styles generally have a positive impact on the students but there were occasions when these were not so. These findings will be discussed in greater detail in this paper. Penerbit UKM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/23064/2/066-076%20Teaching%20Style%20Learning-Mei.pdf Lee, Mei Ph’ng and Thang, Siew Ming and Nambiar, Radha M. K. (2015) Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch? Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities, 12 (4). pp. 66-76. ISSN 1823-884x https://ejournals.ukm.my/ebangi/article/view/10996/3540
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Lee, Mei Ph’ng
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Nambiar, Radha M. K.
Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch?
description It has been acknowledged that teacher and student diversity in the classroom have led to varied teaching and learning styles preferences. Previous studies have generally looked at teaching styles or learning styles in isolation and have rarely considered the impact of teaching styles on learning styles or vice versa. This study extends this one step further by first establishing the learning styles of a group of engineering students and then investigating the impact of the teaching styles of their Technical Communication teacher on them in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) context. Specifically it explores whether accommodation or resistance arises when there is a mismatch in teaching and learning styles. The respondents were 5 Malaysian engineering undergraduates from two engineering faculties of a public university. Data from students were collected using Felder and Silverman’s Index of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire, student interviews and reflective journals. Teaching styles of the teacher were identified using Grasha and Reichmann’s Teaching Style Survey. The findings revealed that the students and the teacher have mixed learning styles and teaching styles preferences respectively. In addition, the teachers’ teaching styles generally have a positive impact on the students but there were occasions when these were not so. These findings will be discussed in greater detail in this paper.
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author Lee, Mei Ph’ng
Thang, Siew Ming
Nambiar, Radha M. K.
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title Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch?
title_short Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch?
title_full Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch?
title_fullStr Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch?
title_full_unstemmed Matching Teaching Styles And Learning Styles: What Happens In The Case Of A Mismatch?
title_sort matching teaching styles and learning styles: what happens in the case of a mismatch?
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