本文是一篇教学论文，本文将对本研究进行总结。最后，提出了本研究的局限性和进一步研究和教育的建议。在广西生态工程职业技术学院被试大学生中，大学生最喜欢的学习方式是动觉学习、听觉学习和视觉学习。L组也受到受试学生的欢迎。学生最不喜欢的两种学习方式是个体学习和依赖性学习。教师应根据当前大学生的学习风格，调整教学风格，采用相应的教学方法。数据显示，高职院校学生在动觉学习和小组学习方面表现欠佳。因此，教师应鼓励学生培养有利于英语学习的学习风格。对于学生来说，他们应该认识到动觉学习和小组学习的不足，然后努力拓宽他们的英语学习方式。
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Stud
Nowadays, students are living and learning in an environment which is quite different from the last century with so much abundant learning resources both online and offline as well as advanced equipment and teaching techniques. The greatly developed learning condition will certainly greatly be affected the learning style of most learners, including college students.
Many students, from primary school to college, having no ideas about learning styles. Therefore, most of them are not so sure what type of learner they should belong to. If the students can figure out what types of learners they are at an early age, their life could have been different. The way of learning should be more effective and time-saving.
With the widely spread and popularization of Internet and multimedia technology, the endless emergence of educational concepts and teaching methods is increasingly updated, students' psychological development and learning characteristics and methods have also undergone rapid changes. Driven by the concept of "individualized" education and "learner-centered" teaching, more and more scholars and educators have come to realize the individual differences of learners and the leading role of learners in the learning process. As a result, there are more and more differences in the ways and means of studying individual learners. Learning Style has again become the focus.
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1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study
In the context of the information age, the rapid development of the mobile Internet, with the widespread of Internet plus and Wi-Fi, smartphones, tablet personal computers, WeChat Official Account, micro-blogs, Mooc have gained their popularity among the youth and most of the students. They are powerful new learning and communication tools and platforms. The rapid development of Internet provides a new direction for the development of education by enhancing the reform of it. In the new era, the learning style, learning efficiency and learning mode of learners of all ages will be affected. Especially the college students, who tend to be mature both psychologically and physiologically. They are very plastic in many aspects. Therefore, it is very necessary to grasp and understand the changes in college students' learning styles, preferences, and characteristics. Only in this way, their self-awareness can be well enhanced, good learning styles and habits can be cultivated as well as face up to their learning strengths and weaknesses. Nowadays, many pieces of researches focus on English teaching have gradually shifted from "how to teach" to "how to learn". The purpose of this study is to study how the learning styles of vocational college students have changed in the new Internet era under the guidance of learning style theory. This fully reflects the need to respect students' differences in teaching. Just as the old Chinese proverb goes “teaching students in accordance with their aptitude”. The study aims to help the students in GX Eco-Engineering Vocational and Technical College fully understand their learning style, adopted appropriate learning strategies, and positively provide some references for the teaching and learning in higher vocational colleges.
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Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Definition, Classification of Learning Styles
Generally, the concept of Learning Style (LS) was considered first brought forward by Herbert Thelen in 1954. It is widely acknowledged that students obtain knowledge in different ways ( Dweck and Berniecrat, 1983; diSessa, 1985; Jonassen and Grbowski, 1993; Gardner, 1999; Lynn, 2009).[15]Western studies on learning styles can be divided into three stages: early studies (mid-1950s-late 1960s) focused on the characteristics of learning styles from different learning styles, learning strategies and cognitive styles; recent studies (mid-1970s-1990s) showed a clear trend from the whole to the differentiation, focusing on the use of disciplines. The method of learning experiment studies all kinds of factors in learning style to reveal their influence on learning style. Modern learning style research (after the late 1990s) focuses on applying the research results of learning style to teaching practice to guide teachers' teaching and students' learning. In the West, there have been dozens of theories and models of learning styles, many of which have been directly applied to teaching practice.
Several definitions have been offered for learning styles. Ellis(2001) defines learning style as the consistent pattern of behavior and performance by which an individual approaches educational experiences. According to Vester(2005), learning style is the more or less consistent way in which a person perceives, conceptualizes, organizes, and recalls information.[10] Keefe(1979), an American scholar, believes that learning style is a relatively stable learning pattern which is related to learners' psychological characteristics, personal emotions, and cognitive styles, what it reflects is how learners feel the information, interact with the environment and then react accordingly.
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2.2 The Definition and Characteristics of Internet Plus
Internet Plus is the integration of the internet and traditional industries through online platforms and IT; it is expected to push forward the Chinese economy by reforming innovation and economic structure. In general, the emerging Internet Plus in China has the following characteristics (which you can find by searching Internet+ at http://baike.baidu.com). The Characteristics of Internet Plus are as follows:
Trans-boundary integration. Internet plus involves economic subjects from different fields; thus, trans-boundary integration of the Internet and traditional industries is the most important feature.
Innovation drives development. China's extensive resource-driven growth model has long been unsustainable. We must shift to the right path of innovation-driven development. This is the nature of the Internet, the so-called Internet thinking to change, self-revolution, but also more able to give play to the power of innovation.
Structure reformation. The information revolution, globalization and Internet have already broken the original social structure, economic structure, geographical structure and cultural structure. Power, rules of procedure and discourse are constantly changing. Internet + social governance, virtual social governance will be very different.
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Chapter 3 Research Design ................................ 21
3.1 Research Questions ................................... 21
3.2 Participants ..................................... 21
3.3 Instruments ............................... 21
Chapter 4 Research Results Analysis and Discussion............................ 25
4.1 Questionnaire Results Analysis and Discussion .................................. 25
4.2 Interview Results Analysis and Discussion ................................ 33
Chapter 5 Main Findings and Suggestions .............................. 37
5.1 Main Findings ................................ 37
5.2 Suggestions ........................................ 39
Chapter 5 Main Findings and Suggestions
5.1 Main Findings Here are some major findings of the questionnaire.
1)The overall situation LS of vocational college students in the study are concluded as follows: Kinesthetic learning style is the most favored perceptual learning style by the 99 participants with a mean of 18.37. The 2nd preferred style is auditory learning style with a mean of 17.91. Visual learning style rank 3rd with a mean of 17.75. The 4th preferred style is group LS with a mean of 17.54. The 5th preferred LS is individual LS with a mean of 16.62. Dependent learning style is the least favored learning style with a mean of 16.49 among college students who take part in the survey.
2) Through interviews and analysis of interviewee’ data, it is found that students with multiple learning styles have achieved better academic performance; while students with single learning style have lower or relatively poorer academic performance. Among the students tested, those who prefer kinesthetic learning style also have higher scores than those who don’t like kinesthetic learning style.
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Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 Summary
1)The overall college students’ learning style can be concluded as follows: Among the tested college students in Guangxi Eco-engineering Vocational and Technical College, college students' most favorite learning style is kinesthetic, auditory and visual LS. Group LS are also welcomed among the tested students. Two of the Students' least favorite learning style are individual learning and dependent LS. Teachers should adjust their teaching styles and apply corresponding teaching methods according to the current learning styles that existed among the college students. The data show that students in higher vocational colleges are not good at kinesthetic learning and group learning. Therefore, teachers should encourage students to cultivate those learning styles that are good for English learning. As for the students, they should realize the weakness in kinesthetic learning and group learning, and then try their best to broaden their ways of English learning.
2)Students with multiple learning styles have achieved better academic performance; while students with single learning style have lower or relatively poorer academic performance. Among the students tested, those who prefer kinesthetic learning style also have higher scores than those who don’t like kinesthetic learning style. As for the teachers, teacher’s’ teaching styles should compensate the students’ LS. Moreover, teachers should supervise individual learning under Internet & Multi-media environment. In addition, teachers are supposed to encourage students to develop multiply LS. As for the students, students should hold an unyielding view that there is no absolute good or bad PLS. Under the Internet & Multi-media environment, students should have the awareness of to develop and make full use of their visual and auditory LS. Students’ PLS should combine the training objective of their majors with their personal strengths. What’s more, students are expected to develop those LS that can be beneficial to their studies which they are not good at, such as kinesthetic and group LS.
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