Revisiting High School Students’ Learning Styles in English Subject

Mubushira Khalid, Dr. Aroona Hashmi

Volume 14 Issue 5

Global Journal of Human-Social Science

The prime motive for this endeavor was toexplore the tenth grade English class students’ preferred learning stylesstudying in government secondary school so that Englishsubject teachers could tailor their pedagogical strategies inrelation to their students learning needs. Further aim of thisstudy was to identify any significance difference among thestudents on gender basis, area basis and different categoriesof school basis. The present study was an attempt toaccomplish the objectives like to identify the tenth gradeEnglish class students learning styles. The population of this study consisting of all the secondary level schools working in the government sector andpositioned in the province of Punjab. The multi stage clustersampling methodwas employed while selecting the studysample from the population. The scale used for theidentification of students’ learning styles in this study wasdeveloped by Grasha-Riechmann. The data collected throughlearning style scale was analyzed by employing descriptivestatistics technique. The results from data analysis depict that learning styles ofthe majority of students found to beCollaborative and Competitive.Overall, no considerabledifference wassurfaced between male-female, urban-rural,general-other categories of 10th grade English class studentslearning styles.