The Relationship between Cognitive Styles and English Productive Skills of Vocational High School Students in Makassar

Hamzah, Andi Nurfadillah and Baa, Sultan (2022) The Relationship between Cognitive Styles and English Productive Skills of Vocational High School Students in Makassar. Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, 10 (1). ISSN ISSN 2338-4778 (Print) ISSN 2548-4192 (Online)

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Abstract

The objectives of this research were (1) to find out the eleventh-grade students’ cognitive styles classification of SMK Telkom Makassar; (2) to find out the eleventh-grade students’ productive skills achievement of SMK Telkom Makassar; (3) to find out whether there is a relationship between cognitive style and productive skills in class XI SMK Telkom in the academic year 2020/2021. The research design was correlational design. The total sample was chosen using quota sampling consisted of 30 tourism students in the eleventh grade at SMK Telkom Makassar in the academic year of 2020/2021. The instruments to collect the data were cognitive style test, speaking test and writing test. The Group Embedded Figure Test (GEFT) was used to collect cognitive style data, while speaking and writing tests were used to determine students' speaking and writing abilities. In analyzing the data, Pearson Product Moment is used to analyze the data where to find the correlation coefficient and simple linear regression where to find the significance and linearity variables. The findings indicated that (1) there were 16 Field Dependent (FD) students and 14 Field Independent (FI) students; (2) most of the students had poor achievement in speaking and writing test and there were a weak, positive correlation between students’ cognitive style and productive skills; (3) it was showed that the contribution of cognitive style to students’ speaking ability was 14.8%, and the contribution of cognitive style to students’ writing ability was 20.5%. Therefore, the study concluded that there was significant correlation between cognitive style and English productive skills of the eleventh-grade students of SMK Telkom Makassar in the academic year of 2020/2021. Keywords: cognitive style, productive skills, speaking ability, writing ability

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SASTRA
Divisions:	FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SASTRA
Depositing User:	Farid Sehuddin
Date Deposited:	23 May 2023 08:41
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2023 02:03
URI:	http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/28964

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