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Orang Asli is one of many entities among the diversity of races in Malaysia. The difference in residence contributes to the diversity of socioeconomic status, education level, lifestyle, learning styles, and ICT skills, which may result in different opportunities to undergo life-long learning. Due to this, the study aims to explore how learning styles affect the level of ICT skills among Orang Asli students. This is to ensure Orang Asli students can enhance their ICT literacy skills. Qualitative research was conducted, which involved nine (9) Orang Asli students. The data was organised using the ATLAS.ti 7 software. Research findings show that visual for the psychological learning styles dimension and group for the sociological learning styles dimension were the dominant learning style attributes in helping the Orang Asli students enhance their ICT skills. Findings show that it is important to consider visual and group learning styles in teaching and learning ICT among Orang Asli students. Therefore, this finding contributes by providing a research direction to enhance ICT skills among Orang Asli students' by considering their dominant learning styles.
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To Cite this Article: Kamsin, I. F., Khalid, F., & Azman, N. (2023). Orang Asli Students: Learning Style Affects ICT Skills. International Journal of Academic Research in Business & Social Sciences, 13(9), 42– 51.
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