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63.75. It meant that the field independent students’ was better than field dependent students in reading comprehension achievement.
In short, cognitive style that focused on field dependent and field independent gives influence to the students’ achievement in learning English, especially
reading comprehension. There were significant differences between field dependent and field independent students in reading comprehension achievement
in this research. The comparison of mean in the students’ reading comprehension test according to
their learning styles showed that the students who often used field independent style were better in reading comprehension test than the students who often used
field dependent style. In addition, the result revealed that there was a statistically difference in reading comprehension between field dependent and field
independent students. This indicates that the students learning style affect their reading comprehension.
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5.2. Suggestions
In line with the conclusions of the research, the researcher proposes some suggestions as follows:
1. Suggestions to Teachers
The English teachers are recommended that they should pay more attention of students’ cognitive styles, that is, field dependent and field independent, in
teaching learning process. According to the results of this research, it was found that there was a significant difference between field dependent and field
independent students; in this research reading comprehension achievement. The researcher suggests that the English teachers should pay more attention and
should consider to their students in the term of their personality types. English teachers should not underestimate their students’ ability because they have
different types of personality which make different way on learning and influence their learning achievement in reading comprehension.
The researcher suggest that the English teacher should give more attention to the field dependent students in teaching reading especially in identifying main idea,
identifying topic sentence, identifying supporting details, identifying reference making inference also analysing visual and context clues. The teacher should train
them to be more concentration since field independent is greater in number than field dependent, therefore their reading comprehension achievement will be better.
