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STUDENTS LEARNING
STYLES IN ACQUIRING
ENGLISH AS A SECOND
LANGUAGE
Calambro, Jonard
Demos, Ernest Vincent
Lamela, Cathy
Sarabia, Mariel
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
English is the world's most widely used language.
It is the official language in 53 countries and is spoken
as a first language by around 400 million people
worldwide. Through English, we can communicate
through everyone around the globe and become
connected with each other. If English is not the first
language of one country, it becomes the second
language or is part of the curriculum to be learned.
As a second language, English is taught to students in
universities by ESL teachers. A learner’s efficiency in
learning and acquiring English varies between the
students, since they preferentially take in and process
information in different ways: by seeing and hearing,
reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively,
analysing and visualizing.
Teaching methods also should vary
accordingly. How much a student can learn is also
determined by the compatibility of the student’s
learning styles and the teacher’s teaching styles. It
is important for teachers to know their learners’
preferred learning styles because this knowledge
will help teachers to plan their lessons to match or
adapt their teaching and to provide the most
appropriate and meaningful activities or tasks to
suit a particular learner group at different stages.
Learning styles play a vital role in students’
learning process. Colleges and universities today
show an increasing disparity between faculty and
students, between teacher and learning. What
suffers as a consequence is the learning process
itself and the natural differences in learning
patterns exhibited by new students are often
interpreted by faculty as deficiencies.
What may be happening, then, is a fundamental
“mismatch” between the preferred styles of faculty
and those of students. It is always important for
teachers to teach this to their students. Teachers
spare no efforts to refine their own teaching
methods, keep on informing the students of various
learning approaches, for example, how to build up
word power, how to improve reading ability, etc.
However, they forget one thing, the most important
one, which one suits them most. Students won’t
take the approach recommended by the teacher,
and apply that to their learning practice. As a
result, teachers are supposed to figure out their
students’ learning styles—internally preferred
learning styles, and then the teaching styles can be
compatible with the learning styles.
The researchers are challenged to find out
the different learning styles of college students,
specifically the First Year College of Education
Students of PHINMA University of Iloilo, in learning
and acquiring English as a second language.
Learning a second language and becoming
accurate and fluent in both languages can help you
in not only understanding but also conveying and
expressing your thoughts. The researchers want to
know the effectivety of these different learning
styles of the respondents by providing
questionnaires and conduct an interview through
social media regarding their school performance
and scores in language examinations.
Statement of the Problem
The main problem of the study is to determine
how students’ learning styles affect their
learning in acquiring English as a second
language. Specifically, this study attempts to
find answers to the following questions:
1. What are the different learning styles that

students use when learning English?
2. Which of the learning styles is the most
effective to use?
Research Objectives
The main objective of the study is to determine
how students’ learning styles affect their
learning in acquiring a second language.
Specifically, this study seeks to:
1. Identify the different learning styles that

students use when learning a second language.
2. Assess which of the learning styles is the
most effective to use.
Significance of the Study
The findings of the investigation may be beneficial
to the following persons for variety of reasons:
Students. The researchers will be able to help

students identify which learning method they
could use in acquiring a second language that is
effective and will aid them better for learning.
Teachers. The researchers will be able to help

teachers adjust their lessons by knowing how their
students learn best; they can improve their
strategies and techniques for them to acquire a
second language easier.
School. By engaging with the research, they
can take a lead, question and reflect on their
practice. The school can try new things in the
classroom and learn more about teaching and
learning, they can contribute to the whole-
school improvement for the teachers’ benefit
and the students.
Community. The community will have globally

competent and productive members of the
society.
Scope and Limitations
This investigation is only limited to the selected
Fourth Year College of Education (COED) Major
in English Students in PHINMA University of
Iloilo. Fourth Year College students were chosen
as they have already completed the English
courses and have experiences in learning the
language in question. This study will be
conducted on November of the school year
2021-2022. The questionnaires to be given to
the respondents will be sent via Google Form
since face to face interview is not allowed. The
questionnaires contain questions regarding
about their learning styles.
Definition of Terms
For clarity and precision, the following terms in the
study was given conceptual and operational
definitions:
• College Student is a person who goes to school
and is
learning something. Students can be children,
teenagers, or adults who are going to school, but it
may also be other people who are learning, such
as in college or university.
In this study, the respondents who will be
questioned by the researchers.
• Learning style is the way that different
students learn.
A style of learning refers to an individual’s
preferred way
• Language acquisition is the process by which
humans acquire the capacity to perceive and
comprehend language (in other words, gain the
ability to be aware of language and to understand it),
as well as to produce and use words and sentences
to communicate.
In this study, it is what the researchers will
observe by using different learning methods.
• Second Language is a person's second language,

or
L2, is a language that is not the native language (first
language or L1) of the speaker, but is learned later
(usually as a foreign language, but it can be another
language used in the speaker's home country).
In this study, it is what the learners’ are trying
to acquire by using different learning styles.
• English is an Indo-European language in the
West
Germanic language group. Modern English is
widely considered to be the lingua franca of the
world and is the standard language in a wide
variety of fields, including computer coding,
international business, and higher education.
In this study, English is the second

language that students’ are acquiring or
learning by using different learning styles.
Chapter 3
METHODOLOGY
Research Design
This research study used descriptive survey method
design to assess and identify the learning styles of
Fourth Year College Students on acquiring and learning
English as a Second Language, specifically those who
took Major in English. The researchers will use
questionnaires to determine the chosen learning style
that affects and is effective in their learning of the
English Language.
Descriptive survey research uses surveys to gather,

analyze, and classify data about varying subjects like
prevailing practices and styles and then adequate and
interpretation about the data to know the extent to
which different styles can be obtained among these
subjects without statistical treatment.
Research Respondents
The researchers considered the 4th Year
Education Major in English students of PHINMA
University in Iloilo choosing only a maximum of
10 students, male and female. They were the
chosen respondents because their course is
aligned to English. Moreover, they have
completed the curriculum and are ready to
apply their learning to practice.
Research Instruments
In this study, the researchers will use
questionnaires to gather data. The
questionnaire is a set of orderly arranged
questions carefully prepared to be answered by
the respondents that were chosen by the
researchers. The set of questions are about the
learning styles the respondents are using to
acquire and learn the English language. The
data collected will be analyzed and tallied to
determine which is the most effective to least
learning style used.
Data Gathering Procedure
Due to restrictions caused by the lockdown and pandemic,
the researchers would not be able to conduct face to face
surveys, instead they will use online means to gather
data. The questionnaires were made using Google Forms,
which is a survey administration software that allows
users to create and edit surveys online while collaborating
with other users in real-time. The collected information
can be automatically entered into a spread sheet.
The questionnaire will have two parts, half will be
dichotomous questions that will be responded with “yes”
or “no”, and half will be open-ended questions to let the
respondents formulate their own response to answer the
questions. The questionnaires will be sent to the 10
selected respondents and will be given allotted time to
answer.
Data Gathering Procedure
The data gathered from this research will be
collected and organized according to the
answers of the participants. Along with the
questionnaires as the research instrument used
in collecting primary data, the researchers will
also make use of other resources and scholarly
articles to support the results of the survey.

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STUDENTS LEARNING

1. What are the different learning styles that

1. Identify the different learning styles that

Students. The researchers will be able to help

Teachers. The researchers will be able to help

Community. The community will have globally

• Second Language is a person's second language,

In this study, English is the second

Descriptive survey research uses surveys to gather,

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