Resumen de Do learning styles influence the academic performance of the English language in higher education?
Magdalena Ullauri, Narcisa Fuertes, Dennys Tenelanda, Angela Calderón
The research was based on the workshop EAPRAIFE (learning styles and academic performance of the English language in the Faculty of Education). It aimed to determine the difference between the control and experimental group in the post test, after applying the workshop EAPRAIFE of the learning styles in the academic performance of English language in the students of the Language Center in the Faculty of Education at the National University of Chimborazo, term 2015-2016. The population of study consisted of 200 students. The instruments fulfilled the qualities of validity and dependability. The obtained results allowed to reject the null hypotheses and to accept the hypotheses investigated due to according to the Mann-Whitney U test there are significant differences between the control and experimental group regarding the academic performance when applying the workshop mentioned above, being the significance level to 95% smaller than the 0,05 that is to say, 0,000. So that it was proven that there is a significant difference between the control group and the experimental group after the post test.
