Gender in A School: Case Study on Students' Learning Style

Rasyifatul, Qotrunnada (2025) Gender in A School: Case Study on Students' Learning Style. Undergraduate thesis, Islamic University of KH. Achmad Shiddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Qotrunnada Rasyifatul Imaniyah, 2025: Gender in A School: Case Study on Students’ Learning Style
Keywords: gender differences, learning style, case study
The succes of English teaching in Indonesia cannot be freed from the students’ cultural backgrounds, values, customs, and beliefs as well as the political standpoint of the government regarding this foreign language. Apart from that, teaching English cannot be separated from the influence of gender on it, because gender differences greatly influence teaching and learning activities in the classroom. This is also influences their understanding of a lesson or material which have an impact on their learning achievement. This research focuses on differences of learning styles between students’ male and female in the classroom and its affect to their achievement. There have been many studies on gender and its influence on students’ learning styles, but there are still few studies on how gender in schools influences students’ learning styles, students’ habit, interactions that occur in class, and how gender influences students’ English language skills in the classroom.
This research used qualitative. The kind of method used case study design. This research project was conducted in the one of junior high school located in Jember. The participants were recruited from students at 9th grades, consist of 16 students’ male and 12 students’ female. The data were gathered from three stages including, classroom observation of students’ learning activity, semi-structured interview and document review.
To analyze data, the researcher used data analysis techniques drom Miles, Saldana and Huberman. The stage of data analysis were: (1) condensation data, including: selecting, focusing, abstracting, simplifying and transforming data, (2) data display, and (3) conclusion.
The findings of this study is gender status influenced students’ learning style. Drawing of the findings of the study, it can be concluded there are some significant differences in study, abilities, interaction and learning style between students men and women in English learning and teaching activities in the classroom. Moreover, the researcher found out that students’ gender influenced students’ learning style, and it impact to students’ learning achievement. As a result, this study suggest that teacher must increase the understanding of students’ lerning style, then teachers will educate, teach, guide, and direct students, so that the best teaching activies are created.

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