AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION WITH DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find out: i) whether there is any significant difference of students’ reading comprehension with different learning styles and ii) what the most difficult aspect of reading comprehension that are faced by students. This research is quantitative research. This research use ex-post facto design. The subjects of this research are 30 students of SMPN 26 Bandar Lampung. The data are collected through learning styles questionnaire and reading comprehension test. The result shows that there is no significant difference of students’ reading comprehension with different learning styles. Furthermore, the most difficult reading aspects that are faced by students are making inference for visual learning style, understanding vocabulary for auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. In conclusion, the students who have different learning styles faced different difficulty in reading comprehension.