Exploring the Relationship between Teaching and Learning Styles in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between learning styles of Croatian EFL learners and their teachers’ teaching styles. The first part of the paper brings the theoretical overview of both types of styles. The most popular division of learning and teaching styles is, according to sensory preferences, into visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, group, and individual. In the second part, the research on the relationship between learning and teaching styles of Croatian EFL learners and teachers is presented. The results showed that students preferred auditory learning style, while teachers preferred visual and individual teaching styles. Therefore, there was a mismatch, which seemed to affect students’ achievement.