The relationship between EFL learners' learning styles and their level of engagement in online education

The primary purpose of this research is to identify the individual learning styles of the Higher Vocational EFL learners based on Kolb's Learning Style Inventory and to see the relationship between learners' learning styles and their engagement to online courses. Depending on this primary purpose, the study also shed light on these issues; the level of students' engagement to online education and the impact of learning styles on EFL learners' online engagement. This research has been conducted as a quantitative descriptive study. Using Kolb's Learning Style and Online Student Engagement Scales, the research data is extracted from a group of randomly selected 150 students who study at Higher Vocational School as English Foreign Language Learner in a foundation university during the 2020-2021 academic year. Within the scope of the research questions, descriptive, correlation, and regression analyses were conducted to analyze the obtained data. The study results primarily revealed a crucial relationship between EFL learners' preferred learning styles and their engagement in online courses. Moreover, according to the regression analysis results, the learning styles preferred by the EFL learners affect their level of engagement in online classes.