The Correlation Between Students’ Learning Style And Listening Proficiency

Students’ learning style refers to a specific way of learning that is preferred by the students. Learning style is important for both students and teachers to assist them in designing a better learning strategy to improve English skill especially for listening proficiency. This study was conducted to find out the correlation between students’ learning style (Variable X) and their listening proficiency (Variable Y). The participants in this research were 24 students of senior high school in Darul Ulum Islamic boarding school who were chosen randomly by the researcher. The research instruments used to find out the data were questionnaire and listening proficiency test. After obtaining the data, it was analyzed by using Pearson Product Correlation method. The result showed that the most preferable learning style was auditory (46%), tactile (13%) and kinesthetic (13%) and visual learning style (4%). Afterwards, the score of correlation coefficient (rxy) was 0,178 and this score lower than rtable score. The comparison was 0,178 < 0,404 with the degree significance of 0,05 and 0,178 < 0,515 with the degree significance of 0,01. Since the rxy score was lower than rtable, alternative hypothesis (H1) was rejected and null hypothesis was accepted (H0). In conclusion, there was no significance correlation between students’ learning style and their listening proficiency.