A Study On The Relationship Between English Learning Styles And English Spelling Ability Of Senior High School Students

Nowadays,the research of foreign language teaching pays more and more attention to the subjective position and individual differences of foreign language learners in the process of foreign language teaching.As the main feature of students’ differences,learning styles have a great influence on the learner’s learning effect throughout the whole learning process.Learning styles are also related to the spelling ability of English learners in China.For Chinese students,English spelling plays a crucial role in English learning,especially for senior high school students who have to take part in the National Matriculation English Test.To better sit for the test,senior high school students are required to have good spelling abilities,which enable them to perform well in word writing,sentence writing,and text writing,etc.At present,the theoretical research on learning styles has been relatively mature,but the research on the combination of learning styles with English spelling ability in the context of English teaching in Chinese high schools is relatively rare.Therefore,conducting this research is of theoretical and practical significance.Based on the information processing theory,this paper attempts to investigate the correlation between different types of learning styles and spelling ability of high school students by way of questionnaires,spelling tests and quantitative analysis.The survey participants were 50 students from a key senior high school of Xiamen.The study found that:(1)learning styles with an obvious predictive power for spelling ability are visual,sequential and analytical learning styles;(2)the types of misspellings of high school students investigated are the five types of spelling errors like American English and British English,silent letters,consonant doubling,vowel,diphthongs and homophones.By combining the three learning styles with obvious predictive power of spelling ability and the five types of spelling errors,the present research make some suggestions on high school English spelling teaching.