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The study aims to the relating factors about the learning style of elementary school student, including of sex, grade, area, learning adjustment and academic achievement, to explore and understand the difference and relation between rariables. The sample of this study were 475 the fourth and sixth grade students stratified purposive sampling from seven public elementary schools in Taichung county and Taichung city. The instruments of study were" Series Scholastic Aptitude Test of Elementary School", "Learning Style Scale", "Learning "Adjustment Scale", "Mandarin Achievement Test" and "Mathematics Achievement Test". The researcher tested the hypothesis of study by one-way ANOVA, partial correlation, two-way ANCOVA, multiple stepwise regression, path analysis, then selected six students with apparent learning style to interview and to understand the possibly forming causes and influence about learning style. The conclusion of this study were as follows: 1.There are significant difference of learning style and adjustment in different sexes, grades and areas of elementary school students. 2.To eliminate the factor of intelligence, learning djustment and ten items of learning style, including of light, design, motivation, persistence, responsibility, structure, adult, visual, time, impulsive/reflective,have significant partial correlation with academic achievement. 3.Learning style and adjustment have no interaction with academic achievement. 4.The highest prediction for academic achievement is learning adjustment. 5.Learning adjustment and six items of learning style, including of motivation,responsibility, self learning, auditory, tactile, time, have influence directly on academic achievement. 6.Eight items of learning style, including of light, design, motivation, persistence, adult, visual, kinesthetic and impulsive/reflective, influence learning adjustment directly, influencing academic achievement indirectly. 7.The learning style of every learner is unique, there are differences even family. 8.Learning style can''''''''t be changed because of environment in short time, but can be modified, changed or made gradually because of interaction with enivronment. 9.The learners who understand self-learning-style can help him to handle the situation of learn and know to have great learning effect in which situation. There are effect for learning interesting and achievement. According to the conclusions above, some suggestions for teacher and further study were offered.
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