Reading and Learning Style

that there is a significance difference between students’ visual and auditory style in English achievement. 57 Secondly, the research was conducted by Cendy Septianty Rizky. She conducted causal comparative study which finding out whether there was significant differences of students’ English achievement based on their visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles at second grade of SMP Islam Harapan Ibu. The data analysis revealed that auditory dominated the stud ents’ learning styles and the highest score was gotten by kinesthetic learners. She used ANOVA to analyze the data. The result showed that there is a significance difference among student’s English achievement. Therefore, it can be understood that there is significant differences value in students’ English achievement based on their learning styles. 58 The last related previous research was conducted by Tanta. The purpose of her research was to know the impact of students’ learning style towards their academic achievement on the subject of general biology. The instruments that the writer used to gathering the data were observation, questionnaire, and documentation. She used SPSS to analyze the data and in analyzing data, she also tested the normality test and she calculated the regression analysis. The research result of the research showed that students’ learning style belonged to visual type because 22 students from 31 sample are visual learners. Then, it revealed that there is an influence of learning styles to the academic achievement of the students of semester I 20092010 of biology education program. 59 57 Endang Rahmatullah, “Students’ English Achievement based on their Learning Style An Ex Post Facto at Second Grade students SMAN 1 Sepatan Tangerang ”, Skripsi Universitas Islam Negeri Jakarta, 2009, pp.1- 26, unpublished. 58 Cendy Septianty Rizky , “Students’ English Achievement based on their Learning Style A Causal Comparative Study at Second Grade students SMP Islam Harapan Ibu ”, Skripsi Universitas Islam Negeri Jakarta, 2013, pp.1- 26, unpublished 59 Tanta , The Impact of Learning Style towards Students’ Study Achievement on the Subject of General Biology, of Biology Education Program, Cenderawasih University . Kreatif Jurnal Kependidikan Dasar, vol. 1 no. 1, 2010, pp. 7-20.

C. Theoretical Framework

Reading is an active skill. When people read, they have a goal. They want to get idea or information from the written text. It means that whoever people are need comprehension to get the main idea of a reading text. Especially, for English Education Department students, they will have a lot of reading texts material even less reading is the main subject which they have to be mastered. Therefore, the ability in reading plays significant role for them to gain success in their academic achievement. However, reading comprehension becomes a problem among the students when they face a reading text. Reading comprehension which can be seen from their achievement relates to English acquisition. One of factors affected language acquisition is learning styles. Learning styles relates to reading achievement because the ways students prefer to learn determine their comprehension. She or he feels comfortable in absorbing, acquiring, pereceiving, and processing the information with her or his own way. Those factors make learning styles relate to reading comprehension. Despite of the students have the combination of learning styles, they usually have a dominant learning style or their own preference style. The students who have visual learning style, they will prefer to learn by reading a book by themselves. They will have much interaction with visual and books rather than other learning styles. It means that they will use to read and automatically they will have better comprehension in reading. Meanwhile, students who have auditory learning style, they prefer to listen or hear something from people. They will have better comprehension by hearing rather than reading. It can be said that auditory learners generally will have less comprehension in reading rather than visual learners. And then, kinesthetic learners prefer to learn by touching and doing. They really like doing experiment when they are learning. Movements are their oriented to learn best. It means that their preferences are in play with the physical parts rather than reading or looking at diagrams about how it works.