Mathematics in Education, Research and Applications (MERAA), 2016(2), 2

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Received 2016-10-12 ǀ Accepted 2016-12-08 ǀ Published online 2016-12-21
DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.15414/meraa.2016.02.02.54-60

Preferences in students’ educational styles

Miriam Pietriková, Radomíra Hornyák Gregáňová, Monika Orlíková
Slovak university of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of Economics and Management, Nitra, Slovak Republic; University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Social Sciences, Trnava, Slovak Republic

Article Fulltext (PDF), pp. 54–60: Objective of the research was to verify the existence of dominant students’ educational style in the English language learning in the selected city in Slovakia. The theme of educational styles and students’ education is quite current and therefore it became the subject of survey. The article deals with the creation of integrated review on the prevailing educational styles among students in English lessons in selected Slovak schools. The basic survey’s aim was to determine whether there exists a dominant educational style in learning of the English language in selected schools. In connection with the abovementioned aim, the existence of differences between preferred educational styles of all students, as well as of students in accordance with the type of attended school or according to the age has been found as well. The following basic methods of the descriptive statistics and hypotheses testing were utilized in the assessment of the survey results. The existence of the statistically significant relations among the acquired assessments was verified by means of the χ^²–test.; Keywords: educational style, English language, students, secondary schools, questionnaire, survey; JEL Classification: I 21, C12