LEARNING STYLES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON LISTENING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AMONG 11TH-FORM STUDENTS =

Abstract

This study investigates learning styles and their influence on listening skills development. Specifically, the researcher focuses on the difficulties experienced by the targeted students and their styles adapted in learning listening comprehension. In addition, the research site and subject is 195 students in 11th-form in the Foreign Language Specializing School, ULIS, VNU, Hanoi. The data collection instruments were survey questionnaires, and interview. It was firstly revealed from the results that five most typical obstacles barrier the targeted students from effective listening comprehension, they are psychological factors, limited vocabulary, speaker’s speech, long listening texts, and difficult grammatical structures in listening texts. Secondly, in terms of the students’ learning styles adapted in developing listening skills, four underlying styles are unveiled, they are reflective, global, visual, and sensing. Basing on these finding, the researcher offers some pedagogical suggestions for the sake of the effectiveness of 11th-form students’ adaptation of suitable learning styles in developing listening skills.