외국어교육에서의 학습스타일의 특성과 역할 = The Characteristics of the Students' Learning Styles and their Role in Foreign Language Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Park, Jung-sook. 1997. The Characteristics of the Students` Learning Styles and their Role in Foreign Language Education. Linguistics, 5-2, 133-150. One area of research that has received much attention in the fields of foreign language education is the students` learning styles, which are defined as the general approaches students use to learn a new subject or tackle a new problem. The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics of the learning styles and its role in language education. This study first reviewed the literature on the nature and content of the students` learning styles in the foreign language classroom. In addition, this paper compared and contrasted a number of empirical studies on the effects of the students` learning styles on the achievement in foreign language classroom. This paper also discussed instructional implications as to the learning styles and teaching styles as means to construct an effective learning environment. (Kwangju University)