Definition of Terms Organization of Writing

3. For English books publishers

The English books developer could publish the English books that relate to the appropriate learning styles, which would have positive impact to the book users and publishers.

F. Definition of Terms

This study involves a number of specific terms. The researcher defines terms in the thesis as follows: 1. Influence Influence is an effect of one person or thing on another. 2. Learning styles Jack C. Richard and Richard Schmidt 2002:85 state that learning styles are the particular ways in which a learner tries to learn something. They also add that in the context of second or foreign language learning, different learners may prefer different solutions to learning problems. 3. Vocabulary Vocabulary is a set of lexemes, including single words, compound words or idioms Jack C. Richard and Richard Schmidt, 2002:580 4. Mastery Mastery is comprehensive knowledge or skill in a particular field.

G. Organization of Writing

Chapter 1 shows background of the study, scope of the study, formulation of the problem, purpose of the study, significance of the study, definitions of the terms, and organization of writing. This chapter generally shows up the framework or the ground thinking of this study to bridge the following chapters. Chapter 2 shows up the review of the related literature. It describes the theories used in developing the study. All of them will serve the fundamental references in conducting and analyzing the study. Chapter 3 concerns in the method of investigation conducted by the researcher. It gives the description of Research Design, Research Variables, Population and Samples, Place and Time of the Research, Research Instrument, and Technique of Data Analysis. Chapter 4 deals with the analysis of the data collected. The last is chapter 5; it gives the conclusions of the thesis and provides some suggestions for further study.

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

A. Previous Research

In Academic Year 2004 2005, Nurini as the student of English Department in Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto Indonesia conducted a research concerning ‘vocabulary mastery and learning styles’ with its title “A Study on The Comparison in Vocabulary Competence between Students with Visual and those with Auditory Learning Style.” The instruments applied here were questionnaire and document. The writer applied questionnaire to determine preferred learning styles and documentation to get the same grade of students that would be participants. Finally, the research has shown that there was not any difference on vocabulary competence between students with visual and those with auditory learning style at the first semester of English Department Students of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto, Banyumas. The research conducted by Nurini is different from the research on this thesis. Based on the collected data of the questioner and objective test of students, the research conducted by Nurini was to find out significant difference between the groups of visual and auditory sensory preference of learning style. On the other hand, the research conducted on this thesis is to find out significant difference between the group of students that are taught by using sensory preferences visual, auditory and tactile-kinesthetic of learning style and the group of students that are not. 12