ATTRIBUTION TENDENCY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH IRANIAN EFL STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLE AT ADVANCE LEVEL, A STRUCTURE EQUATION MODELING APPROACH

Khalil Motallebzadeh, Maryam Ebrahimi Seresht, Samaneh Ardalan Javan

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This study was designed to find out whether there is any association between EFL learners attribution tendency and their learning style level at advance level. To this end 135 English learners were chosen as the subject of the study; 85 female, and 50 male. They were asked provide answers to two valid, reliable questionnaires; attribution questionnaire (ATFLL), and Reid’s (1987) PLSP Questionnaire. Having obtained the raw data, the SPSS software (version 21) was used to change the data into numerical interpretable form. Then, the correlation between the subscales of two variables was calculated. Also structure equation model was run. The result of the study indicated that there is high, positive correlation between Kinesthetic learning style and internal attribution. Moreover, Individual learning style had the highest positive correlation while group learning had the highest negative correlation with external attribution.


Keywords


ATTRIBUTION THEORY, LEARNING STYLE, ADVANCE LEVEL, EFL

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