Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran
Vol 9 No 2 (2022)

The EFL Undergraduate Students and English Reading Styles: Evidence from One English Education Program

Fortunasari Fortunasari (Universitas Jambi, Indonesia)
Rd. M. Ali (Universitas Jambi, Indonesia)
Lili Lestari (Universitas Jambi, Indonesia)
Harlina Harja (Institut Agama Islam Nusantara Batanghari, Jambi, Indonesia)
Siti Rahma Sari (Institut Agama Islam Nusantara Batanghari, Jambi, Indonesia)
Sri Hidayati (Institut Agama Islam Nusantara Batanghari, Jambi, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2022

Abstract

The study was aimed to investigate the students’ English reading learning styles used by EFL undergraduate students. The participants were students from one English study program at Faculty Teacher Training and Education in Jambi, which aims to produce teachers in English teaching. This study used total sampling with 75 participants consisting of 22 participants in the second semester, and 53 participants in the sixth semester. The analysis of the data was based on the students’ response to twenty five statements that consist of five parts: there are auditory, kinesthetic, group, visual, and individual. For which they were required to choose any of five alternatives namely strongly agree, agree, not sure, disagree, and strongly disagree. The results revealed that the most preferred reading learning style among the respondents was the auditory learning style and the least is visual learning style. Then, for the gender male used kinesthetic learning style and female used auditory learning style. In this study, suggestions for future research, students, lectures and university are also discussed.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

edukasi

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran provides a vital forum for exchanging ideas in order to enrich the theories and practices of Education in general and English, Indonesian, and other language education in Indonesia and across the globe. The journal focuses, but not limited to, on the ...