THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLE AND ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 1 GRESIK

Abstract

The students have their own model for learning language to reach the goal of learning. Learning style is the way of the students to decide the effective and efficient way to sense, remember, process, and save what they have tried to learn. However, the students of junior high school, especially at eighth grade, they have their own learning style to learn the language, but they have not known yet which learning style that can help them achieve English achievement. Meanwhile, there are four kinds of learning style. Those are converger, concrete, conformist, and communicative learners. This quantitative study wants to investigate whether there is correlation between students’ learning style and English achievement. The researcher gave the questionnaire which was adopted from Willing (1988) to the students to find the students’ learning style. 25 students of Muhammadiyah junior high 1 Gresik grade 8A were given the questionnaire. Then, the researcher gave writing test to 17 students who have converger and concrete learning style to know their English achievement. The result of this study showed the different result with the previous study. The previous study showed that converger and concrete could give impact on students’ academic achievement. This study showed that there was no significant correlation between converger learning style and English achievement. On the other hands, the result of concrete learning style has the similar result with the previous study which showed significant correlation between concrete learning style and English achievement since the subject of the study was high school students