2019 Volume 11 Pages 17-28
The term ‘learning style’ refers to the view that different people learn information in different ways. When the learning style of a student matches the educational method in English class, it is thought he can learn effectively and easily. However, researchers have failed to find an effective method to match individual learning styles and educational methods. It is necessary, therefore, to make clarify the relation of effective classes and the feeling of compatibility. In this study, the authors attempted to find the relation between feelings of compatibility, favorability and effectiveness by administering a questionnaire asking university students about their feelings regarding English education at junior high school and high school. The results showed that when one of 3 feelings was negative, all of them tended to become so. As for the relation between emotional expression type and appropriate educational method, students of tensioned emotion type feel compatibility with English comprehension. Students of excited emotion type feel compatibility with active expression, while those of relaxed emotion type feel compatibility with human stories. Therefore, in order that students may feel enough compatibility with their English classes to learn, it may be important to provide learning activities which are tailored for students with different learning styles and to let them express suitable emotions.
