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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter presents two sections. The first one is research findings divided into quantitative and qualitative research findings from the three research
variables of students’ learning style x
1
, English speaking ability x
2
, and academic performance y. The second section is research discussion based on the
research findings. The discussion is based on the statistical result from SPSS 21 for the quantitative and in-depth interview transcripts for the qualitative. Since the
research employed mixed-method approach of quantitative and qualitative and the sequential explanatory strategy was used to interpret the research findings, then
quantitative research findings and discussions came first as the primary result supported by the qualitative research findings and discussion.
A. Research Findings
This section consists of two parts. The first one is the quantitative research findings which consist of the descriptive statistics based on the data scores of the
research variables, the correlation between the variables based on the data scores of the research variables and the hypothesis testing based on the significance of
correlation coefficient. The second one is the qualitative research findings related to the statements from the participants in the in-depth interviews based on
indicators of the research variables. For the students’ learning style x
1
, the data scores were taken from the questionnaire filled by the samples. For the English
speaking ability x
2
, the data scores were taken from three English speaking abilities. The activities were singing contest, group discussion, and English
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interview. For the academic performance y, the data scores were taken from the holistic score of students’ performance in the second semester English speaking
test. The data scores for the students’ learning style x
1
, English speaking ability x
2
, and academic performance y is shown in Table 4.1. Table 4.1
Data scores of Students’ Learning Styles x
1
, English Speaking Ability x
2
, and Academic Performance y
No Learning Styles LS
Speaking Ability SA Academic Performance AP
1 43
73 62
2 42
78 71
3 40
52 42
4 39
81 72
5 39
77 67
6 47
86 91
7 44
60 63
8 46
83 81
9 41
85 87
10 45
72 62
11 45
72 72
12 36
61 58
13 47
80 77
14 44
69 69
15 37
66 65
16 42
71 73
17 40
57 53
18 39
72 78
19 46
82 87
20 40
86 90
21 35
64 62
22 36
64 70
23 45
78 74
24 43
74 75
25 45
81 82
26 40
59 60
27 39
76 79
28 45
69 74
29 40
73 63
30 46
85 83
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1. Quantitative Research Findings
This part shows the statistical results of the research variables based on the calculation in SPSS 21. The first result is descriptive statistics and correlation
using Pearson Product Moment Correlation for two variables correlation and Multiple Correlation for three variables correlation. In order to fulfill the
condition of having parametric statistics Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Correlation, I employed data normality and linearity test.
a. Descriptive Statistics
The descriptive statistics is used to describe summary of the data scores for each research variable as the preliminary result in a quantitative result. The descriptive
statistics shows the number of samples, the minimum score, the maximum score, the mean or the central tendency, and the standard deviation or the amount of variation
from the average. The descriptive statistics for students’ learning style x
1
, English speaking ability x
2
, and academic performance y is shown in Table 4.2. Table 4.2
Descriptive Statistics of students’ Learning Style x
1
, English Speaking Ability x
2
, and Academic Performance y
Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum
Maximum Mean
Std. Deviation LS
30 35.00
47.00 41.8667
3.50107 SA
30 52.00
86.00 72.8667
9.31344 AP
30 42.00
91.00 71.4000
11.30334 Valid N listwise
30
1 Students’ Learning Style x
1
The data for this variable were taken from the data scores of students’
learning style questionnaire. The number of participants was 30 students of tenth graders in Vocational High School. From Table 4.2, it can be seen that the
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