Effects of Students’ Learning Style and Teachers’ Teaching Style on Linguistic Ability of Students in an Ethno-Diversed Environment

Abstract

The study aimed to describe the effects of the students’ learning
style and teachers’ teaching style on the linguistic ability of students in
an ethno-diversed environment.The participants were the fourth year
students of Apayao State College, Conner Central National High School,
Conner National High School, Benjamin Leguiab Memorial National High
School in the academic year 2013- 2014 who took the National Career
Assessment Examination. The third year teachers of the fourth year
students who took the NCAE were also part of the participants. Data were
gathered through a questionnaire.The study also made use of the 2013-
2014 NCAE result to determine the students’ linguistic ability in terms of
verbal ability and reading comprehension. Results proved that Conner is
indeed a home of diverse groups of people and most of them speak Ilocano.
The result also illustrated that most of them are visual learners. The result
also showed that matching of teaching style with the students’ learning
style is not significant. Teachers had no exact teaching style that matches
various students’ learning styles in an ethno-diverse environment.