Résumé:
This study attempts to discover the learning preferences attributed to the first year
learners of English as a Foreign Language, and to figure out the effect of these learners’
learning styles on their academic achievement in the oral expression course. To certify
the research hypothesis, the VARK questionnaire designed by Neil Fleming was
employed. This questionnaire aims at identifying respondents’ learning preferences.
Moreover, the quantitative descriptive method is used, as a way to link between
learners’ learning preferences and their annual achieved averages in the oral expression
course. The results obtained at the end of this work identify the learning preferences of
EFL first year learners, and validate the effect of first year students’ learning styles on
their academic achievement in the oral expression course.
