1Ph. D. Scholar, Department of English, School of Language, Lit. & Cultural Studies, SRTMU, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
2Associate Professor, Department of English, People's College, Nanded, 431602, Maharashtra, India
Effective language learners are those who are aware of their learning styles. Such learners know the different perceptual learning styles and how they affect their acquisition of English language better. The perceptual learning styles being six styles: visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, group and individual are identified as biological to every learner but vary of strength and preference from a learner to another. Likewise, less effective learners might not be aware of their learning styles, but that does not their acquisition of language that much as the duty falls on the teacher before starting with his/her learners to try to identify their learning style preference so to cope with them and present the teaching in a suitable and matching to the learners’ styles preferences.
This paper aims at investigating the perceptual learning styles preferences of Yemeni students in the faculty of Education, Hodeidah and shows to extent it is important for a teacher to try to identify his/her learners preferred perceptual learning style.
perceptual learning style preferences, Yemeni students, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile
