Learning styles and academic performance in efl : An experimental study

Disertación (Licenciado en Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza del Idioma Ingles) Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Escuela de Lenguas y Linguistica.

1. Theorethical framework concerning learing styles.-- 2. Description and application of instruments.-- 3. Presentation of results from instruments and analysis.-- 4. Practical suggestions and description of lesson plans.-- 5. Results of applying methods focusing on learning styles and analysis.-- 6. Conclusions and suggestions for further research.

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Knowledge is the key for achieving success and whoever has it has the power to change the world positively or negatively. So, it depens on us to make the best decisions not for us but for our children. After this, we can say that every day, around the world, we can find new tendencies in the education field that influence the process of teaching-learning-evaluating and everything that is around it. In addition, education is continuosly changing and that is why we as teachers must be informed about and trained for those new things, in order to have a participative role to contribute to the development, not only of Ecuador, but also the world. The objective of this proyecto is not to teach individually according to one´s preferences, but to achieve a balance of instructional methods to teach them in the manner they prefer, increasing their motivation to learn through reasoning communicative activities similar to the ones that exist in their real world.