EFL 학습자의 학습 스타일과 영어 듣기 전략 훈련 간의 관계

Relationship between EFL learners’ learning style and English listening strategy training

The current study aims at exploring the relationships between EFL college students’ learning style and their English listening strategy use after training the strategy use. For this study, 25 college students (11 males and 14 females) were trained for 12 weeks with 25 listening strategies: 13 cognitive, 8 compensation, 2 social, and 2 affective strategies, while the learning style was divided into 4 types: how to use physical senses (visual, auditory, and hands-on), how to deal with people (extroverted and introverted), how to approach tasks (closure- and open- oriented), and how to deal with ideas (global and analytic). The result in general was that listening strategy training exerted significantly different effects on the students’ use of listening strategies depending upon their learning styles. In case of the learning style of how to deal with ideas, however, no significantly different relationship was found between the two variables. Such findings indicate that listening strategy training needs to be tailored for EFL learners specific learning purposes considering their different learning styles for effective strategy use.