A Study of Different Views Teaching From Students’ Perspectives

Lecturers play a significant role in imparting knowledge to students. Effective teaching style that fits the needs of the student is important at the higher education level to encourage motivation, attitude and responses during teaching activities as well as to improve their performance. Law students are exposed in retrieving and using information to practical skills such as understanding law cases and statutes, essentially requiring understanding various approaches of teaching to determine which methods work best for their students in learning legal skills. Therefore, this study is carried out to explore students’ preferences for their lecturer’s teaching style in learning Legal Skills and to investigate the relationship across teaching views. The method used in this study was quantitative research using a questionnaire as the main instrument. A set of questionnaires are designed to gain primary data which is divided into six sections: Section A: Demographic Profile, Section B: Expert Teaching Style, Section C: Personal Authority Teaching Style, Section D: Personal Model Teaching Style, Section E: Facilitator Teaching Style, and Section F: Delegator Teaching Style. A total of 230 respondents from first and second-semester foundation law students participated in the survey. The data were then collected and analysed using the software Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The findings of the study provide information for law lecturers on the preferred teaching styles in the Legal Learning Skills subject and to diversify their teaching styles to increase the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Thus, this study has some important implications to assist lecturers in matching and adapting the appropriate teaching style, as well as in designing more effective teaching and learning lessons that cater to the needs of the students.

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