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This paper aimed to investigate the learning style preferences of level seven EFL learners at the department of foreign languages at Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Al-Baha University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the academic year 2014/2015. It also tried to discover the potential relationship between learning styles and language learning motivation (instrumental and integrative). Furthermore, it examined the relationship between learning styles and language learning anxiety. To this end, Reid's Perceptual Learning Style Preferences Questionnaire (PLSPQ) (1995), Gardner’s Attitude and Motivation Test Battery/Inventory (AMI), (1985) and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale by Elaine Horwitz (1986) were administered by the researcher to randomly selected 66 male EFL learners. Results of the study revealed that there is positive correlation between Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Kinesthetic learning style preferences and the mean scores of the subjects’ responses to Gardner’s Attitude and Motivation. Test Battery/Inventory [AMI], On the contrary, there is not positive correlation between group and individual learning style preferences and the mean scores of Gardner's motivation scale. Therefore, the preferred learning styles of the sample of the study totaling 66 EFL learners are Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Kinesthetic learning styles. In addition, there is positive correlation between Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Kinesthetic learning styles and instrumental motivation but Group and Individual learning styles don’t correlate with either integrative or instrumental motivation. Finally, learning style preferences don't correlate with foreign language classroom anxiety.
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