U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 4, No 2 (2015): U-JET

IDENTIFYING THE USE OF READING LEARNING STRATEGIES IN RELATION TO LEARNING STYLES

Melati Dwi Anda Syaputri (Unknown)
Bambang Setiyadi (Unknown)
Sudirman Sudirman (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Apr 2015

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui tipe belajar dan strategi yang digunakan siswa berdasarkan tipe belajarnya dalam kemampuan membaca bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan dilaksanakan pada kelas 1 SMAN 3 yang berjumlah 32 siawa. Untuk mengumpulkan data, peneliti memberikan dua kuesioner untuk mengetahui tipe dan strategi belajar dalam membaca. Data dianalisis dengan ANOVA. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa (1) siswa yang tergolong kinestetik berjumlah 15 siswa (46,88%), visual 9 siswa (28,12%) dan auditori 8 siswa (25%), (2) siswa visual lebih sering menggunakan strategi kognitif, siswa kinestetik dan auditori lebih sering menggunakan strategi sosial dalam membaca. Seluruh siswa menggunakan strategi metakognitif sebagai pilihan kedua dalam membaca. Oleh karena itu, dengan mengetahui tipe dan strategi belajar siswa, guru dapat lebih kreatif dalam memilih metode belajar yang tepat karena mereka mengetahui bagaimana karakter siswa dan yang mereka butuhkan.This research was aimed at finding out learning styles and the strategies used by learners with different learning styles in learning English reading. This research was a quantitative study and was conducted to 32 learners in first grade of SMAN 3. In collecting data, the researcher gave two questionnaires to measure learning styles and reading learning strategies. The data were analized using ANOVA. The results showed that (1) the learners which were group under kinesthetic was found 15 learners (46,88%), visual was 9 learners (28,12%) and auditory was 8 learners (25%), (2) visual learners mostly used cognitive strategy, kinesthetic learners and auditory learners mostly used social strategy in learning reading. Then, all learners used metacognitive as the second preference of strategy. Thus, by identifying learning styles and strategies, the teacher will be more creative in choosing appropriate methods in learning process because they know what characteristics that the learners have and what they need. Keywords: learning strategies, learning styles, reading

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...