A Relationship Between Students’ Learning Style and Their English Speaking Skill

Abstract

Key Words: Learning Style, Speaking Skill Many students feel difficult in learning English so that makes them very lazy and they are not interested in English. To be able to understand English easily, students have to employ the appropriate learnin style and speaking skill. Therefore, this study focuses on learning style and speaking skill. Both of them are very helpful for beginner or students. This study aimed to find out is there any relationship between students learning style and their speaking skill usually applied by students when they are in learning process. This study used quantitative method. The researcher took students of the fourth semester students of English Department of University of Islam Malang. The linguistic major students as the partiescipants consisting of 50 students from two classes. Qquestionnaire is the instrument of this study. To analyze the data, the researcher used SPSS version 20. The finding of this study showed that correlation is significant at 0.05 where the result of r value or computation r= 0.303. in term of size r –obtained was on interval 0.20-0.40 it means that the relation between learning style and speaking skill used by fourth semester students of English department of UNISMA correlated. But on low correlation, it supported by the mean score of students learning style that is 75.80 and the mean of students speaking skill 76.8. It means that the students of the fourth semester of English education department of UNISMA need support from their lecturer to use learning style to develop their speaking skill based on their style of learning. Therefore, it can be concluded that the learning style is one of the basis of every students to be the main success in increasing their skill. To improve students’ speaking skill, it is necessary to practice more about how to use the learning style themselves. In addition, students also need to recognize their learning style so that the learning process might be effective.