The research entitled "Learning styles and their relationship to academic achievement in the field of foreign language - English, students in the 5th grade of secondary education in the 1.E. "Elsa Perea Flores" District of Tarapoto, in the year 2008", aimed to determine the relationship between learning styles and academic performance in the field of foreign language - English, students in the 5th grade of Secondary Education the "Elsa Perea Flores" District of Tarapoto, in 2008. The investigation was based on the taxonomy of Learning Styles of Kolb, who provides four styles: active, thoughtful, pragmatic and theoretical. On the basis of which has been hypothesize that learning styles are related significantly with academic achievement in the field of foreign language - English, students in the 5th grade of secondary education in the l. E. "Elsa Perea Flores" District of Tarapoto, in 200...