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Every day teachers must make decisions about the instructional process. A teacher’s approach can have an enormous impact on the effectiveness of his or her teaching. Understanding students’ preferences toward teaching approaches and teaching styles can create opportunities for teachers to make adjustments that better serve their students. Many teachers continue using traditional teaching approaches, so the question exists of whether or not these teaching approaches are meeting the educational needs of the learners. This article addresses this question and discusses a qualitative study involving the preferences of 225 Taiwanese EFL university students toward 3 main teaching approaches (instructor centered, student centered, and content centered) and offers pedagogical suggestions. Through a statistical analysis, the research findings indicate that the participants can clearly recognize the differences among the teaching approaches, have a clear preference toward the student-centered approach, and hold more positive attitudes toward student-centered learning.  \nIntroduction  \nMaking decisions is part of the daily process of teaching. Suc  \ncessful teachers weigh these decisions based on the needs  \nof the students and the demands of the curriculum. These kinds of decisions guide teachers to design the instruction for individuals or groups in their classrooms (Longert, 2009) . Because different teachers perceive the classroom environment in different ways, each teacher creates his or her own teaching style that is based on his or her beliefs about what defines good teaching. These styles are developed  \nThe CATESOL Journal 27.2 • 2015 • 259  \nthrough time. Teaching styles are different from teaching methods. Teaching methods may include lecturing, asking questions, grouping students, leading discussions, assigning homework, and testing. Most teachers use all or some of these methods at one time or another during their careers. However, a teacher’s style is not the specific methods employed; it is the unique way in which teachers organize and use these methods (Mermelstein, 2010). Therefore, the term teaching style refers to the way various teaching methods are combined. Hoyt and Lee (2002) refer to this as a teacher’s “recipe” and Mermelstein (2010) points out that different teachers may present the exact same materials or content in completely different ways. In general, a teacher’s style is based on his or her personal preferences about learning, abilities, learning experiences, and cultural beliefs. Therefore, while many teachers are considering how to better teach their students, their actual point of reference may be themselves.  \nMany teachers’ approach to teaching is also different. Some maintain that the classroom environment should be teacher centered (aka instructor-centered), where teachers are considered to be the experts and providers ofall vital information. However, other teachers believe in a student-centered (aka learner-centered) environment where the teacher takes on the role of facilitator, assisting and guiding students toward the learning goals. Further, other teachers take on a contentcentered (aka curriculum-centered) approach in which they are more like interpreters, explaining and following the curriculum that has been handed down to them, or they merely follow the pages of the textbooks that have been selected for their courses. Most successful teachers would agree that it is vital for teachers to select a teaching approach that promotes student success and these three approaches are the ones most commonly used.  \nThree Teaching Approaches  \nThe teacher-centered approach to teaching is the most traditional approach. 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