THE DIFFERENCES OF WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ACHIEVEMENT AMONG VISUAL, AUDITORY AND KINESTHETIC STUDENTS OF SECOND GRADE AT MA AL-ITTIHAD PONCOKUSUMO

Kholis Muzahrotus Tsania, Hamiddin Hamiddin, Diah Retno Widowati

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Writing is an activity to express thoughts through written language, as an English skill, writing was one of difficult skill faced by students. This article aims to describe whether there are differences between students of Visual Auditory Kinesthetic (VAK) in improving writing skills at second grade of MA Al-Ittihad Poncokusumo. The research design of this study was quantitative study ex-post facto research. The participants of this study were 45 students. There was two instruments which given to the students. Questionnaire adopted from O’Brien (1985) which was consisted of 30 items and writing essay. The result of the study was there was significant difference in score among visual, auditory and kinesthetic students on writing achievement. The significant value is 0.00 which is lower than 0.05 level. Then, the F value is 37.017

 

Keywords: Writing achievement, learning style, visual, auditory, kinesthetic

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