The Relationship Between Language Learning Style and English Speaking Achievement of the The Second Semester English Department at The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

faizal ridwan zamzany, s.e., m.m. ; dr. yadi nurhayadi, m.si; dr. roslaini, m.hum.; nurhandayani s., m.pd.;

Isnaini Nurseftiana The Relationship Between Language Learning Style and
English Speaking Achievement of the The Second Semester English Department at The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. Paper. Jakata: Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2018.
This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between language learning
style and their English speaking achievement of the second semester English
department students at the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka. This
study used quantitative method which a questionnaire was distributed and a rubric
speaking assessment to obtain the speaking score and used to collect the data from
35 students. In this study, the most preferred style of learning style is
communicative with the highest mean score (3.36), and the correlation between the
two variables were analyzed using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation. The
results of the calculation (0.364) shows that there is a relation between the two
variables. The result of descriptive static of this study showed that the average score
of the English speaking score is 76.64 and the average score of the questionnaire is
77.64. The result of the correlation showed that tobsereved (2.24) is bigger than the
ttable (2.03), it shows that there is significant correlation between students’ learning style and their English speaking achievement. The findings of this study hopefully have some implications for learners, teachers, lecturers, and the future research in this field of teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language.