The Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences of EFL College Students in Kuwait

Autor/inn/en	Alrabah, Sulaiman; Wu, Shu-hua; Alotaibi, Abdullah M.
Titel	The Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences of EFL College Students in Kuwait
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 11 (2018) 3, S.38-47 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cognitive Style; Multiple Intelligences; English (Second Language); College Second Language Programs; Student Surveys; Individual Differences; Student Centered Curriculum; Profiles; College Students; Kuwait + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Intelligenz (Psy); English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Schülerbefragung; Individueller Unterschied; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Collegestudent
Abstract	The study aimed to investigate the learning styles and multiple intelligences of English as foreign language (EFL) college-level students. "Convenience sampling" (Patton, 2015) was used to collect data from a population of 250 students enrolled in seven different academic departments at the College of Basic Education in Kuwait. The data elicitation instrument was derived from two standardized surveys: one on learning styles (Oxford, 1998) and one on multiple intelligences (Christison, 1998). Data collection utilized the Google Forms interface to facilitate participants' access and responses to survey items through their mobile phones. Data analysis identified the participants' general learning styles and multiple intelligences. The "Microsoft Excel" software program was used by the researchers to generate means, percentages, ranks, and standard deviations. Results indicated that while the participants' dominant learning styles were global, extroverted, hands-on, and visual, their dominant multiple intelligences were interpersonal, visual, and kinesthetic. Implications for pedagogy included recommendations to accommodate students' visual learning styles and multiple intelligences through the use of visual stimuli like PowerPoint presentations, charts, and graphs. In order to accommodate students' extraverted and hands on learning styles as well as their interpersonal and kinesthetic intelligences, the researchers recommended the use of group activities such as role plays, simulations, and debates. Implications for future research included conducting learning styles and multiple intelligences studies in other colleges in Kuwait. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01