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This paper gives a brief overview of UiTM Penang diploma students’ preferences of learning styles specifically among those who were undertaking the English language courses. The five types of learning styles – auditory, visual, tactile, group, and individual are examined with the particular objectives of whether gender and the types of programs taken affect the learning styles of the students. The study also emphasises on the students’ results of SPM and UiTM English courses’; whether or not their preferences were affected by their learning styles. Thus, the Chi-square test and reliability test were used to measure the significance and the consistent reliability. The findings show that auditory, tactile, and group learning styles were predominantly popular among the students of different gender, programs of study, and those who had obtained different grades of their SPM and UiTM examination results. The writers hope that the findings of this study may provide new directions in the teac...

An interlanguage is a linguistic system that has been developed by a second language (L2) learner who is partially proficient in the target language with some of the first language (L1) features in target language communication. The learner’s L1 transfer is derived from the Interlanguage Theory, which believes that “ the psychological structure latent in the brain" is triggered among L2 learners in second language learning. English language has always been a perceived problem for Chinese ESL learners particularly on syntactical rules in sentence construction. However, not many studies have been conducted with a specific focus on the interlanguage of Chinese ESL learners. In this study, it is primarily concerned about how the learner’s existing linguistic knowledge influences the course of English language development among Chinese ESL learners. Since there is a limited intake of Chinese students into the programme of study, the subject of this study consists of 12 Chinese students...