Journal of Educational Sciences
Vol 3, No 3: September 2019

Learning Style and Learning Achievement of Students of FKIP Universitas Riau In Learning English

Hadriana Hadriana (Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, 28293, Indonesia)
Indra Primahardani (Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, 28293, Indonesia)
Mahdum Mahdum (Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, 28293, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Nov 2019

Abstract

Becoming a successful student is a dream of every student and parents. Learning style is one of things that might influence that success. This research intended to find out if there is a correlation between learning styles and learning achievement of students of FKIP Universitas Riau in learning English. 300 students were involved as the sample of the research. The research was conducted during the even semester academic year 2018-2019 and the research data was collected in June 2019. The instruments of the research were adapted from Vark Questionnaire Version 8.01 and students’ grades in their English class. Percentage and mean used to represent the frequency of data for descriptive analysis and inferential analysis was carried out. Since the data of students’ learning style and learning achievement obtained were not normally distributed, associative Kendall’s Tau-c correlation formula was used to find out the relationship between learning style and learning achievement. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between the students learning style and their learning achievement.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JES

Publisher

Subject

Religion Humanities Education Library & Information Science Other

Description

JES publishes original articles on the latest issues and trends occurring regionally and internationally in the educational sciences with the aim to advance our knowledge both in term of theory and practice. Moreover, this journal also covers the issues concerned with the following special sections: ...