RECOGNIZING PERSONAL LEARNING STYLES AND USING LEARNING STRATEGIES WHILE LEARNING ENGLISH IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT

Authors

  • Radka Juřičková VSB-TUO Ostrava

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2013.060202

Keywords:

CEFR, ESP, ELT, e-learning, learning styles, language learning strategies, perceptual preferences VAK, optimized e-courses

Abstract

This paper describes the development of language skills among academics of VSB-Technical University of Ostrava in an LMS Moodle e-learning environment with regard to individual learning styles and strategies while learning a foreign language. A student’s individual learning style plays an essential role in effective foreign language acquisition, therefore recognizing their own learning style and using the right strategies to reinforce their particular curriculum can lead to effective learning. The Department of Languages at the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava has decided to implement e-learning forms of education into English Language Teaching (ELT) in the form of optimized adaptive e-courses. The paper describes the objective of providing an optimized adaptive e-learning environment respecting preferred learning styles with a narrower focus on the perceptual preferences (VAK) of the presented curriculum and with regard to recommended learning strategies to be used while learning. This e-learning environment is being developed in accordance with the Common European Framework of References for Languages and its key language competences divided into two main categories: receptive skills and productive skills.

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    2013-06-30

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    Juřičková, R. (2013) ’RECOGNIZING PERSONAL LEARNING STYLES AND USING LEARNING STRATEGIES WHILE LEARNING ENGLISH IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT’, Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 71–83. https://doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2013.060202

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    Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013)

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