of the process in the classroom and it will give impact to them in behavior and achievement.
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Hence, it is important for students to know the ways they used to learn. For it is connected to students favor of some particular method of
interacting with, taking in and processing stimuli or information of knowledge and it will affect students learning outcomes.
a. Definition of Learning Styles
Learning style is the ways of students in absorbing and understanding the information or idea. In the other side, it could be said that
learning styles is the preference ways in learning. According to Kolb, he emphasized
“learning style is characterized by the degree to which the learner emphasizes abstractness over
concreteness in perceiving information and the degree to which he or she emphasizes action over reflection in processing information in a learning
situation.”
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Meanwhile Hilliard stated “learning styles are the characteristic
ways in which an individual acquires, perceives, and processes information.
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Meanwhile, based on Dunn and Dunn statement, “learning style is the way in which each learner begins to concentrate on, process,
absorb and retain new and difficult information .”
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As the result from those statements, learning style is the way a person prefers to learn. She or he will enjoy and feel comfortable in
absorbing the information with her or his own way.
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Nic Cooper Betty K. Garner, Developing a Learning Classroom, Thousand Oaks: Corwin, 2012, p. 30.
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David Kolb, in Doris B. Matthews, An Investigation of Learning Styles and Perceived Academic Achievement for High School Students, Taylor and Francis Group, 69, 1996, p. 249.
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Hilliard in Zainal Abidin Naning and Rita Hayati, The Correlation between Learning Style and Listening Achievement of English Education Study Program Students of Sriwijaya
University, Jurnal Holistics, 2011, p. 2.
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Dunn and Dunn in Zainal Abidin Naning and Rita Hayati, The Correlation between Learning Style and Listening Achievement of English Education Study Program Students of
Sriwijaya University, Jurnal Holistics, 2011, p. 4.