THE COMPARISON BETWEEN FIELD-DEPENDENT STUDENTS AND FIELD-INDEPENDENT STUDENTS IN READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada perbedaan yang berarti antara siswa field dependent dan field independent dalam nilai reading comprehension. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif yang telah dilakukan pada 32 siswa dari XI MIA2 sebagai kelas sampel di SMA Negeri 1 Kotaagung. Dalam pengumpulan data, peneliti memberikan kuisioner dan tes reading comprehension untuk menganalisis perbedaan nilai antara siswa field dependent dan siswa field independent. Data dianalisis menggunakan Independent Group t-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai siswa field independent lebih baik daripada nilai field dependent pada lima aspek membaca. Maka, penelitian ini menyarankan guru agar lebih memperhatikan siswa field dependent dalam proses pembelajaran sehingga nilai reading comprehensionnya menjadi lebih baik.

The objective of this research was to find out whether there was a significant difference between the field dependent students and field independent students in reading comprehension achievement. This research used quantitative method which was conducted to 32 students in XI MIA2 as the sample class at SMA Negeri 1 Kotaagung. In collecting the data, the researcher used a questionnaire and reading comprehension test to analyze the different scores between field dependent students and field independent students. The data were analyzed by using Independent Group t-test. The result showed that score of that field independent students was better than score of field dependent students in five aspects of reading. Thus, this research recommended the teacher gave more attention to field dependent students in learning process, so that their reading comprehension achievement would be better.

Keywords: field-dependent, field-independent, reading comprehension achievement