STUDENTS’ READING AND LISTENING COMPREHENSION BASED ON THEIR LEARNING STYLES

Abstract

This research aims to know whether there is significant difference of students’ reading and listening comprehension score based on their learning style; visual and auditory at 8th grade students of SMPN 4 Pallangga Gowa in academic year 2016-2017. This study used quantitative method and causal comparative as the design of the study. The instruments of this study were learning style questionnaire, reading comprehension test and listening comprehension test. Further, it used Independent Sample T-Test to analyze the data from learning styles questionnaire, reading and listening comprehension score. Findings of the result reveal that there is no significant difference of students’ reading and listening comprehension score based on two groups learning styles; visual and auditory. The result showed sig. value is 0.592 and 0.594 for the reading comprehension based on two learning styles; visual and auditory, are greater than p-value (0.05), (0.592 and 0.594 >0.05). Similarly, the sig. value of two learning style groups in listening comprehension performance are the same, it is 0.954. Meaning that both sig. values are greater than p-value (0.954> 0.05). Hence, it can be concluded that H0 is accepted and Ha is rejected. Clearly, from the result, it can be said that learning style was not the only one factor affecting students’ reading and listening comprehension score