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5. Learning Style
a. Definition of Learning Style
Each student has the different ability to understand and absorb the lesson that the level is absolutely different. There are students who
could learn quickly, normally and very slowly Uno, 2008:180. The ability to understand and receive the lesson influences the result
reached by the student in learning process. The ability to understand and absorb the lesson is often called learning style.
The variety of learning style is necessary to understand since the beginning of being received in an institution. This will make the
student to be easier in learning process. The optimal learning process, whether to receive or understand the lesson, is very influential on the
result. Learning style is referring to most favored way of learning by the
student. Generally, learning style is dinamic and not static, in which the learning style of a person could change depending on the learning
activity and the changing of experience. Then this tends to be settled for a while and customed. Nonetheless, learning style is not about how
students be clever, but able to optimally absorb information. Learning style came from personality including cognitive,
affective, psychology, social and cultural background and also individual environment. Further, Serife 2008:709 stated:
Learning style was the composite of cognitive, affective, and psychological factors that serve as relatively stable of how a
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environment. It is demonstrated in that pattern of behavior and performance by which an individual approaches educational
experiences. Its basis lies in the structure of neural organization and personality which both molds and molded by human
development and the learning experiences of home, school, and society. Flores, 2010: 16
Learning style is the tendency to adapt a learning strategy in
manner of searching and actively trying based on the experiences in the environment of family, society and school, so that individual received a
learning approach which in accordance with the learning requirement. According to Nasution 2006:94 “Gaya belajar adalah cara konsisten
yang dilakukan oleh seseorang dalam menangkap stimulus dan informasi, cara mengingat, berpikir, dan memecahkan masalah
”. Meanwhile, DePorter and Hernacki 2005: 110 stated that learning
style is a combination of how a person absorbed and then adjusted and processed information.
So it can be concluded that individual who learn has to develop the ability and character in order to receive and absorb information.
The ability and character of the individual are recognized as learning style. Learning style will effect the learning effectivity of student.
Learning style is a manner used by a person whether it is cognitive, affective, psychology, in order to interact with the learning
environment in catching, absorbing and processing information so that be able to solve problems later on.
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still many students who actually clever but did not get good results compared to them who not really clever but reached good results
because of the appropriate learning style Slameto, 2010:82. Further, Deporter and Hemacki 2005:110 stated that if a person was familiar
with the learning style, they would be able to help himself to learn faster and easier, and also by learning to understand the learning style
used by others. Thus could help a person to strengthen the relationship with others.
b. Types of Learning Style
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