Investigating the Relation between Learning Style and Language Learning Strategy Use among Pre-University Student

The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between learning style and language learning strategy use among pre-university students. For this purpose, 132 male and female students were asked to fill out two questionnaires. One questionnaire for identifying perceptual learning style preferences and the other one for identifying language learning strategy use. The results showed that visual learning style was considered as major among participants and the overall use of other learning styles was minor and it was also revealed that most of the participants were medium strategy users. In this study all learning styles except group learning style proved to influence language learning strategy use. There was a positive but weak correlation between auditory, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic learning styles and language learning strategy use, but in the case of individual learning style the correlation was negative. The results of the study and their implications for language learning and teaching are further discussed.