THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LISTENING LEARNING STYLE

Keywords: Learning style, Listening skill
This research attemted to find out the learning style used in learning listening. This
research was carried out by employing descriptive quantitative design. The
population of this research was the fifth semester students of English Education Study
Program of University of Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019. The samples of this
research were taken by using total sampling tehcnique, i.e 66 students. The data were
collected by questionnaire consisted of 36 questions related to the learning style. The
questionnaire adapted from Joy Reid written in Dede Nurul Faridah (2014). The
results of this study showed that the students used three types of learning style in
learning listening ( visual, auditory and kinesthetic). The most used learning style was
auditory (Mean score:2.85), visual (Mean score:2.75) and kinesthetic (Mean
score:2.50). In conclusion, there were three learning style used in learning listening,
and the most dominant learning style is auditory