온라인 대학 영어수업에 대한 학습자 만족도와 학습유형과의 관계

The relationship between learning styles and learners’ satisfaction in online college English classes

The purpose of this study is to investigate how satisfied university students are with online English classes and find out the relationship between their learning styles and their satisfaction with the classes. The study was conducted on thirty-three Korean university students for 15 weeks. The students’ satisfaction with the class was examined to find out their overall perceptions and attitudes. Also, the relationship between the students’ satisfaction with the class and their learning styles was analyzed. The results were as follows. First, online asynchronous English classes had a positive effect on the students’ satisfaction. That is, the students showed positive perceptions and attitudes toward the classes. Second, all of the students with the learning styles, diverging, assimilating, converging, and accommodating, showed positive satisfaction with the online English classes. The ranking of the learning styles with high class satisfaction was in the order of diverging, assimilating, accommodating, and converging. The students with diverging showed statistically significant differences in class satisfaction from the students with converging, and accommodating. This finding indicates that teachers should consider learners’ characteristics with various learning styles to design more effective online classes. Based on the study, some guidelines for effective online English classes were suggested.