1. Learning Styles and
Teaching Styles
Haniffa Beevi Bt. Abdul Jaleel

2. Introduction
• This study is to analyze learning and teaching style on how it
impacts on students’ learning strategies.
• It is based on learning and teaching styles of English Poetry
class.
• Sample – 10 students from Form One along with teacher who
teach the subject

3. Data Collection
• 5 male (50%) and 5 female (50%) students has been sampled
in this research.
• Data collected through questionnaire.
• For Learning style – Index of Learning Style questionnaire
• For Teaching style – Grasha- Riechmann questionnaire

4. Result – Learning Style

5. Result – Learning Style
• 90% of students balance with Active and Reflective learning
style
• 10% of students will find more easy to learn using Reflective
learning style
• 80% of the students can learn using Sensing and Intuitive
learning style and 20% of them will learn better via Sensing
learning style
• 70% of students balance with Sequential and Global learning
style and only 40% of them prefer Visual and Verbal Learning
style
• 50% of the students strongly prefer only Visual learning style
and 10% of them prefer only Verbal learning style. They may
have difficulties in learning if the teaching method didn’t
match their preferences.
• Finally, 30% of students will learn better using Sequential
learning style compare to Global learning style.

6. Result – Teaching Style
• Based on the pie chart, most preferred teaching style is
‘personal model’ followed by expert, delegator, facilitator,
and formal authority.

7. Research Findings
• Around 60% of students are moderate learners in reflective ,
sensing, and sequential.
• Reflective learner –Allows little or no class time for thinking
about new information and jump into a conclusion.
• Teaching method - Teacher may guide this type of learner by
writing short summaries of the poetry .
• Sensing learner – Overemphasize intuition and may miss
important details in the poetry.
• Teaching method – Teacher can do a mind map of the poetry
studied that will enable them to retain the lesson more
effectively.

8. Research Findings
• Sequential learner - Must be taught in a sequential manner.
• Teaching Method – Teacher may provide the outline the
poetry that they are going to study to have a deeper
understanding of the lesson.
• Visual learner - Learners remember best what they see
through pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, and
demonstrations.
• Teaching Method – Teacher can use more images in
explaining the poetry compare to text.

9. Conclusion
• In conclusion, teacher plays most significant role in preparing
the lesson which match with their students’ learning style.
• Teacher must brief the poetry in a chronological order to the
students where this will help the sequential, global and
sensing type of learners to understand the lesson.
• Teacher need to brainstorm the lesson in whiteboard where it
will enhance intuitive and verbal types of learner.
• Role play for the lesson will facilitate active and reflective type
of learners.