AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION WITH DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES

Nina Chintya Saputri, Cucu Sutarsyah, Hery Yufrizal

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan: i) apakah ada perbedaan secara signifikan dari membaca komprehensif siswa dengan gaya belajar yang berbeda dan ii) untuk mengetahui aspek membaca komprehensif yang paling sulit dihadapi murid dalam pemahaman membaca teks bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain ex-post facto. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 30 siswa kelas VIII, SMPN 26 Bandar Lampung. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kuisioner  gaya belajar dan tes membaca komprehensif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tidak ada perbedaan pemahaman membaca siswa yang signifikan dengan gaya belajar yang berbeda. Selain itu, aspek membaca yang paling sulit dihadapi oleh siswa untuk pelajar visual adalah membuat kesimpulan, sedangkan untuk pelajar dengan gaya belajar pendengaran dan kinestetik aspek membaca tersulit adalah memahami kosa kata. Sebagai kesimpulan, setiap siswa memiliki gaya belajar yang berbeda akan menghadapi kesulitan membaca komprehensif yang berbeda.

 

The objectives of this research are to find out: i) whether there is any significant difference of students’ reading comprehension with different learning styles and ii) what the most difficult aspect of reading comprehension that are faced by students. This research is quantitative research. This research use ex-post facto design. The subjects of this research are 30 students of SMPN 26 Bandar Lampung. The data are collected through learning styles questionnaire and reading comprehension test. The result shows that there is no significant difference of students’ reading comprehension with different learning styles. Furthermore, the most difficult reading aspects that are faced by students are making inference for visual learning style, understanding vocabulary for auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. In conclusion, the students who have different learning styles faced different difficulty in reading comprehension. 

 

Keywords: reading comprehension, most difficult aspect of reading, learning styles


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