English Learning Style of Eighth Graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember

Ismi Rosita, - (2021) English Learning Style of Eighth Graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training English Education Department.

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Ismi Rosita,2021:English Learning Style of Eighth Graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember Keywords: English learning style Learning style is one of the significant elements in learning process that helps students to achieve their learning goals. Therefore, the teachers should be aware of students’ learning style in order to make them easy to determine a variety of strategies in accordance with the various students’ needs.All of students have different way or style in learning something, it also occurs in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember because this school is located on the border between district center and country side of Jember. Some of the students come from two different regions that created many diversities caused an impact on their English learning styles. The research question in this research were (1)What types of English learning styles of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember and (2)What are the teacher’s strategies in promoting the English learning styles of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember. Meanwhile the objective of this research were (1)To identify the types of English learning styles of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember and (2)To identify the teacher’s strategies in promoting the English learning styles of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember. This research is a type of descriptive research with a qualitative approach. Data collection methods in this research were conducted online through Google Form questionnaire, Whatsapp video call interview and document review. The participants of this research were 98 students of eighth graders of SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember. This research used the technique of Miles and Huberman's data analysis technique to analyze the data. The results of this research showed that the learning styles of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember was a combination of visual learning styles, auditory learning styles and kinesthetic learning styles. There were 40 students (40.8%) visual learners, 29 students (29.6%) were auditory learners and 29 students (29.6%) were kinesthetic learners. It could be seen that most students of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember were visual learners. On the other hand, every week the teacher randomly used different various strategies to promote the differences of each student’s English learning style such as: (1)Provided the material with various kinds of interesting pictures to make the visual learners easier at understanding the lesson. (2)Gave explanation of the material by using Whatsapp voice notes to support the auditory learners’ needs and (3)Asked the students to make mind- mapping about things around you in order to make the kinesthetic learners more interested in online learning process. Yet, this covid-19 pandemic condition had some negative impacts in online learning process. It made the teacher had limitations in implementing various learning strategies. That’s why the teacher more often provided the simple strategy such as gave the written material, pictures and video learning, asked the students to read and write the material in notebooks because it were easy to implement and had good efficiency.

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