LANGUAGE LEARNING STYLE IN MANAGEMENT STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT GENDER GROUP Daniatussalma,

Learning style is one factor which can determine students in the way how they obtained the learning or information. Between male and female students were different in choosing their learning styles. This study tried to investigate the perceptual learning styles preference in Management students and to know the differences between male and female Management students in learning styles in the first semester at University of Muhammadiyah Gresik. Perceptual Learning Style Preference Questionnaire (PLSPQ) developed by Reid 1987was used and administered to 230 students. An observation check-list also used to support the data with questionnaire. Descriptive Statistic was used to analyze the data. The result indicated that students preferred in Group style when they learned English as Academic Purpose (EAP). In gender, between female and male students showed there were some differences in their learning styles. The result revealed that female students preferred in Group style, meanwhile male students preferred in auditory style. The least preference of learning style both female and male students was Individual style.


INTRODUCTION
Every student has his own characteristic in learning. To make the learning environment comfort with the students, there were some factors to support it. Learning style of students is one of those factors. Learning style is one of what students like to make them focused on the way how they learn (Yosraveevorakul & Hatfield, 2017).
Teacher must know the learning style to make students get more focused and maximized toward the content of the material given by the teacher (Alrabah, Wu, & Alotaibi, 2018).
In the other side (Yosraveevorakul & Hatfield, 2017) claimed that students learning style can be changed all the time if they are in different learning environment. Here it was better for teacher 47 to make students more confident with the different in learning environment. Based on (Hilyatun, 2017) stated that learning style is about how students understand and receive the information from the teacher.
This makes learning style is the important thing in the learning process.
According to Francis 2016 as cited by (Bayu & Sari, 2019) that students who enjoyed with their visual learning style prefer to read and get obtain the information visually. They will be hard to think if they only obtain the information orally and any other conversation from the lectures without any visual stimulation.
Meanwhile, the students who enjoyed with their auditory learning style tend to be comfort to obtain the information orally without any visual input.
There were some studies learned about learning styles. There were also studied about the aspects which effect students' preferences in learning styles.
For the example the study from (Naserieh, Reza, & Sarab, 2013) investigated about learning style preferences toward gender, age, discipline and self-rated. The result revealed that students at Shahid Behesthi University, Iran preferred in kinesthetic and tactile style when they learned English. The other study from (Isemonger & Sheppard, 2003) which administered PLSPQ to 710 Waseda University, Japan determined by age and major revealed that the students preferred in kinesthetic style when they learned English. Study from (Cheng, 2017)  and building models and touching and working with material. The next is Group major which stands to students who prefer learning with at least one student or more.
They like learning in group discussion.
The last is individual style which defines students who prefer learning with her/him self. They feel understand if they do the task alone.
In spite of that, Reid developed questionnaire which related with her six learning style models. It named with Perceptual Learning Styles Preference Questionnaire (PLSPQ). This study investigated learning style preference of students using PLSPQ because there were some studies already used PLSPQ to know the learning style preference of students (Isemonger & Sheppard, 2003) (Naserieh et al., 2013) (Cheng, 2017) and the other. (Peacock, 2001) stated that PLSPQ is valid and reliable to be used in research. In addition of this, Brown (1994) as cited in (Cheng, 2017) stated that it is something prominent or salient in a formal classroom setting.

METHOD
This study may be described as mix method research design. Mix method used to conduct the research question through questionnaire (quantitative) and observation check-list (qualitative) to support the data from questionnaire. Based on (Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, & Razavieh, 2010) stated that the goal of mix methods is to combine between two approaches to utilize the strengthen of each approach.

Subject of the Study
The subject of this study is When the writer did the observation in the class, it showed that mostly female in the class learned with their friends. Even it was not in a group discussion, but mostly female students showed that they directly discussed their task with their friends next to their seat.  (Reid, 1987) was for ESL students.
Both were focused on students who learned English in general.
In the other research from (Naserieh et al., 2013)  According to (Reid, 1987) revealed that males preferred visual and tactile learning significantly more than females.
The respondents of Reid 1987  This study was not as perfect study.
It needs improvement to make this study better and useful to others. This study has a suggestion toward the first research question about perceptual learning styles preference in Management students that the focus of study can be spread out. The learning style may be investigated by examining the field of study and the purpose of the study. The result will be consistent with this study or even different results of the study.
About the second research question about learning style preference between male and female students, this study also has a suggestion for the next researcher.
The possibility of examining age and field of study may have different priorities of students learning style preferences, especially for male and female students. It may be advised that gender also impacts toward the age of them and the field of study. It means that for the next researcher, the other aspect such as age and field of study can be something which can affect the learning style preference students in spite of gender.