The Influence of Physiological Learning Styles on the Completion of an Online Task in a Law Degree

Advances in educational technology offer many opportunities the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom: development of students’ motivation and autonomy; integration evolution Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) with emergence different types online learning tasks; or concern Perceptual Learning Styles multimodal environments. This study investigates new generations’ perceptual preferences how digital tendencies may influence academic achievement after implementation an task (i.e., ‘Lesson’).
 An experimental (n=150) a control group (n=21), from first year bachelor’s degree Law at Spanish university participated this study. Four stages were followed: (1) ‘Perceptual Styles’ Questionnaire’ completion, (2) ‘Lesson’ performance, (3) exam implementation, (4) data analysis. After intervention, results indicate presence ‘Multimodal’ style high levels students.