Students' Learning Style and Spelling Ability

Institution: Goteborg University/Department of English Course: C-level paper, interdisciplinary paper Semester: Spring 2010 Title: Students’ learning style and spelling ability: A study on the relationship between students learning style and their spelling ability in Swedish upper secondary school Writer: Kajsa Olsson Purpose: To examine if there is a connection between learning style and spelling ability and if so, which styles seem preferable. Method: A quantitative study of pupils’ learning style and spelling ability in a questionnaire. Material: 40 pupils’ answers to a questionnaire. Main results: There is a connection between students’ learning style and their spelling ability. Good spellers are more likely to be visual, random, deductive and abstract. Furthermore, it is showed that poor spellers are kinesthetic to a higher degree; however it has proved more difficult to define their cognitive learning style as they are likely to be both random and sequential, deductive and inductive. Table of contents