ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLES AND THEIR EFFECT ON LISTENING PROFICIENCY: A STUDY AT SMAN 2 WATANSOPPENG

Learning styles has revolved around EFL contexts and has gained wider attention from teachers and teaching practitioners as well as researchers in Indonesia and around the world. The main objective of this study is to find out whether there is significant effect of learning style on students’ listening proficiency.

The design of the present research is quantitative research design that incorporates statistical tools. The study design employs causal comparative of ex post facto design. The population of the research was the second grade students of SMAN 2 Watansoppeng with a total of 150 students taking only 27 students as the sample. The instruments were in the form of questionnaire about learning style and listening comprehension test. The data were analyzed by using One-Way ANOVA in IBM SPSS 25.0.The result showed that the profile of the students learning style was 7% (2 students) are visual, 56% (15 students) are auditory, and 15% (4 students) are read/write, and 22% (6 students) are kinesthetic. Moreover, it was found that auditory tend to be the most dominant learning style. F-table score of learning style on students’ listening proficiency is 0.159 and the significant value is 0.923. The values confirm that there is no significant effect of learning style on students’ listening proficiency. The finding generates pedagogical concerns that teachers should not worry about the differences of students learning styles since effective and productive teaching may be achieved regardless of style variables.