The relationship between the students' learning styles and the teachers' teaching styles

Abstract

Learners have diverse preferences in the integration and dispensation of information. This quantitative research focuses on the relationship between students’ learning styles and teachers teaching styles. The 16-point multiple choice VARK version 7.1 and a Survey of Teaching Styles of Geoff Petty, (2016) questionnaires were distributed to a total of 369 students of grade nice and grade ten after acquiring permission to use the said research instrument. Result shows that out of 369 respondents a total of 125 students (33.9%) were multimodal. Overall, 303 students (82.1%) employed multimodal and 66 students (17.9%) was unimodal. Results revealed that there was no significant association between predominant learning styles and teaching styles. Therefore, learners are diverse or have multiple modalities in their learning styles which play an important role in their lives. When students recognized their own learning styles, they will be able to integrate it into their learning process. Moreover, teachers should try to adjust their teaching styles so that they will match with their students’ learning styles. The study have identified that teachers’ did not frequently match the learning styles of the students.

Key words: Learing styles, Teaching styles, VARK