A Study Of Relationship Between Learning Styles And Teaching/ Learning Models In College English

By employing quantitative research, the author firstly uses closed questionnaires to investigate College non-English-majors'trends to learning styles from the perspectives of sensory channels, social factors, cognitive styles, learning processes and personalities. Then their preferences for learning models the writer investigates in detail from five types of models as follows, Cooperative Model, SPICM Model, Network Auxiliary Model, Conventional Model and Task-based Model. Then the writer discusses the trends to learning styles and learning models of AOC and TCC, which are of definitely different teaching models. Further study is carried out among different research subjects on the correlation between learning styles and learning models, as well as the reciprocal influence they have on learning effect. Later on, the author investigates the factors that affect the outcome of teaching and learning in class from different groups (the large sample group, AOC and TCC) respectively. It is found out in the studies that different students have different learning styles in many dimensions; Learning styles and learning models have correlations with each other in many dimensions; because different teaching models influence AOC and TCC, the two groups have different learning effects. For AOC, teaching model matches well with their learning models. For TCC, teaching model does not match with their learning models. Therefore, the two groups have rather different leaning effects.