An analytic survey of the learning styles of students in the department of English-college of arts-Ahlulbait University

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This paper aims at analyzing the different learning styles of the first year students in the Department of English / College of Arts / Ahlulbait University It defines the concept of learning, discusses briefly the factors affecting learning process with or without teacher's control; pointing out the characteristics of good language learning.

Types of learning styles are tackled as well To asses students' learning styles, they were offered a designed questionnaire of the "Learning Style Survey" , adapted by Julie Chi and Andrew Cohen from Rebecca L.

Oxford's (1993) and 'Style Analysis Survey' in Reid (1995), cited in Schmitt (2002: 188).

After analyzing the results, some issues are presented concerning the teachers' attitudes towards having such various learners with such different learning styles, all in one group.