The correlation between learning style and achievement in english skill at SMAN 1 Kepohbaru

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Nurkhofifah, Evi (2021) The correlation between learning style and achievement in english skill at SMAN 1 Kepohbaru. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Several factors influence the success of student's Achievement, including learning styles. Every student has their learning style. There are three factors to be students more effective in learning: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Each learning styles makes it easier for students to receive and process information in learning the material. Thus, this study focuses on knowing and finding the correlation between learning style and Achievement in English skills. Besides, a quantitative method was employed by a correlational study, questionnaire, and students' writing scores as the instruments. This subject is for students of the 10th grade SMA Negeri 1 Kepohbaru in the academic year 2020/2021 and involved 75 students of science class A and B as the participants. Furthermore, the results showed that both variables are calculated with the rank Spearman correlation using SPSS 16.0. The correlation coefficient is 0.579, which indicates the positive and strong correlation between learning style and achievement in English skills. Hence, the alternative hypothesis (H1) of this study states that a correlation between learning style and achievement in English skill is positive significant correlation between two variables. Besides, it is found that the visual learning style was the most preferred, followed by the kinesthetic learning style and auditory learning style. Therefore, the English learning teacher must be defended the visual learning style and improved the auditory and kinesthetic learning style with the method and facility the students in English learning.