Students’ Preference of English Learning Style

Abstract

All of students have different way or style in learning something, it also occurs in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember because some of the students come from two different regions that created many diversities caused an impact on their English learning styles. The objective of this research were (1)To identify the types of English learning styles of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember and (2)To identify the teacher’s strategies in promoting the English learning styles of eighth graders in SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember. This research was a type of descriptive with qualitative approach. This research were conducted online through Google Form questionnaire, Whatsapp videocall interview and document review. The participants of this research were 98 students of eighth graders of SMPN 2 Rambipuji Jember. The results of this research showed that 40 students were visual learners, 29 students were auditory learners and 29 students were kinesthetic learners. On the other hand, every week the teacher randomly used different various strategies to promote the differences of students’ English learning style. Yet, the teacher more often provided simple strategy that were easy to implement because the covid-19 pandemic condition made the teacher had limitations in implementing various learning strategies.