Male and Female Students' Learning Styles and Their English-speaking Skills: A Qualitative Case Study
Abstract
In teaching English, student learning styles are factors that influence student learning tactics. learning style is an overall pattern that offers learning behavior a widespread direction. in an effort to reach their full potential, a person will expand abilties that help a person learn in a number of approaches. particularly in speaking abilities. In understanding speaking abilities, students often experience numerous issues, one among which is gender differences. The motive of this research is to conduct studies in analyzing the mastering forms of speaking abilties that are most customarily applied by means of students and finding full-size differences in learning styles of speaking skills based on gender in teaching English. Qualitative descriptive studies is a research layout in this study. From this research review, it changed into found out that male and female students use the identical learning style, however fluctuate in the frequency of using the learning fashion. female students use the visual learning style with a mean of 3.8, while male students with an average of 3.5. The average of female students who use auditory is 4.6, while the common of male students is 3.4. For the common female student who uses kinesthetic is 3.7 but the average male student is 2.8.
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Reid, M. J. (1987). The learning style preferences of ESL students. TESOL Quarterly, 21(1),87-111.
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Richards, J. C. (2003). Teaching listening and speaking. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Richards, J. C., & Schmidt, R. W. (2010). Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics (4th Ed). London: Pearson Education
Skehan, P. (1994). Differenze individualie autonomia di apprendimento, in MARIANIL (ed). L Autonomia nel Apprendimento Linguistico. Fierenze: La Nuova Italia/Quaderni del LEND.
Smith, M. W., & Wilhelm, J. D. (2002). Reading doesn't fix any Chevys: Literacy in the lives of young men. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Sugiarto, T, (2020). E-learning Berbasis Schoology Tingkatkan Hasil Belajar Fisika,: Cv. MINE
Swann, J. (1992). Boys, girls, and language. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Tarigan, H. G. (2008). Berbicara sebagai suatu keterampilan berbahasa [Speaking as a language skill]. Bandung: Angkasa.
The Education Alliance. (2007). Gender differences in reading achievement: Policy implications and best practices. Charleston: The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
Viriya, C., & Sapsirin, S. (2014). Gender differences in language learning style and language learning strategies. Indonesia Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(2), 77-88.
Zafar, S., & Meenakshi, K. (2012). Individual learner differences and second language acquisition: A review. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 3(4), 639- 646.
Zellner, B. (1994). Pauses and the temporal structure of speech. In E. Keller (Ed.), Fundamentals of speech synthesis and speech recognition (pp. 41-62). Chichester: John Wiley
Zoghi, M., Kazemi, S. A., & Kalani, A. (2013). The effect of gender on language learning. Journal of Novel Applied Sciences, 2(S4), 1124-1128.
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2023-03-30
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FARIDAH, Laili; WAHAB, Abd Aziz; ZAINUDDIN, Zainuddin.
Male and Female Students' Learning Styles and Their English-speaking Skills: A Qualitative Case Study.
EDUCATION AND LINGUISTICS KNOWLEDGE JOURNAL, [S.l.], v. 5, n. 1, p. 21-37, mar. 2023.
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