An Analysis of EFL Students' Learning Main and Subskills in Terms of Hand Usage, Study Style and Gender

Autor/in	Tomakin, Ercan
Titel	An Analysis of EFL Students' Learning Main and Subskills in Terms of Hand Usage, Study Style and Gender
Quelle	In: African Educational Research Journal, 8 (2020), S.109-123 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2354-2160
Schlagwörter	Handedness; Native Language; Gender Differences; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Brain Hemisphere Functions; Undergraduate Students; Study Habits; Learning Processes; Grammar; Visualization; Reading Processes; Music; Phonetics; Student Attitudes; Cognitive Style; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linkshändigkeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Study behavior; Study behaviour; Studienverhalten; Learning process; Lernprozess; Grammatik; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Leseprozess; Musik; Phonetik; Fonetik; Schülerverhalten; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	The brain asymmetry and contralateral control of the body by the left and right brain hemispheres is known (Crystal, 1997; Fromkin, 1998). It is widely accepted that language lateralization, damage to the left brain, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and results show that the left brain is regarded as the language learning center. Yet it is difficult to explain counter evidences such as Phinea Gage, an abbot, and Genie's cases. Besides, it is also important to consider the left handed people's cases. It does not matter whether the learnt language is L1 or L2; supposing that the language learning center is strictly limited to (lateralized) only the left hemisphere, it was difficult to explain how the left handed people have learned their L1 or L2. Hence this study investigated how undergraduate students learn the main and sub-skills of ELT according to hand-usage (left or right), study style (individual or group) and gender (male or female) variables. A questionnaire of seven skills including 5 options was applied to 27 left handed and 75 right handed EFL from grade 1 to 4. Fisher's Exact Test (FET) was used to detect the statistical relations among each demographic variable and the students' preference level for each different skill. Although the language learning is usually regarded as main function of the left brain, it was found that left handed students' learning mother and English, visualizing the listened text by the left handed students, visualizing the grammar rules as figure, table and image by most right-handed males, the left handed females' listening music while reading, visualizing the phonetic symbols by the left handed students tend to imply that the right brain has also relation with the language learning. Results were discussed with other findings and some suggestions were posed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01