Siti Sholikhah (201532047)

Class B

THE QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

PROPOSAL
 TITLE
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN
STUDENTS LEARNING STYLE AND
THEIR ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
 BACKGROUD OF THE RESEARCH

Language learning styles is the main factors that help to

determine how – and how well – our students learn a foreign
language. A foreign language is a language studied in an
environment where it is not the primary vehicle for daily
interaction and where input in that language is restricted.
Following the tradition in our field, the term “L2” is used refer
to either a second or a foreign language (Rebecca L, 2003)
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

is there any positive and significant relationship

between students learning Style and their
English proficiency?
 OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH

to find out whether there is any positive and

significant relationship between students
learning Style and their English proficiency or
not.
 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH

The Writer The

researcher

The Teacher The

students
 SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH
The scope of the problem can be seen as follows:
• The researcher focuses to find out the positive relationship
between the students learning Style and their English
proficiency.
• The researcher focuses to find out the significant relationship
between the students learning Style and their English
proficiency.
• The researcher will hold this research in the fifth semester
students of English Education Department at Muria Kudus
University in academic year 2017/2018.
 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION
• Learning styles are the general approaches – for example,
global or analytic, auditory or visual – that students use in
acquiring a new language or in learning any other subject.
“Learning style is the biologically and developmentally
imposed set of characteristics that make the same
teaching method wonderful for some and terrible for
others” (Dunn & Griggs, 1988, p. 3).
• English language proficiency is the ability of an individual
to communicate effectively in English (Smitha Dev & Sura
Qiqieh, 2015).
 REVIEW TO THE VARIABLE OF THE
RESEARCH

Learning
Styles English
Proficiency
REVIEW TO THE PREVIOUS
LITERATURE
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

X Y

X Variable = Students Learning Style

Y Variable = Students English Proficiency
 HYPOTHESES

• there is a positive and significant relationship

between students learning style and their
English proficiency.
 METHOD OF THE RESEARCH
Design of the Research

In this study, under the non-experimental research design,

correlational research model -one of the quantitative research
methods- is used. If the aim is not to affected the variables
with independent variables as in the experimental design but to
define the relations between them, then this kind of research
is called correlational research (Tekbıyık, 2014). Correlational
study describes the degree to which two or more quantitative
variables are related (Fraenkel, Wallen and Hyun, 2010).
 POPULATION AND SAMPLE

Population

The population from this research is all of students in the fifth

semester students of English Education Department in Muria
Kudus University in academic year 2017/2018. The total of the
population in this research is 90 students and divided into
three class. That is Class A with 30 students, B class with 30
students, and the last is C class with also 30 students.
 SAMPLE

Sample Variable

Participant Sample

Variable X Variable Y
30
Class A: x 72 = 24
90
30
Class B: x 72 = 24
90
30
Class C: x 72 = 24
90
Listening,
Visual, Audio,
Speaking,
Audio Visual,
Reading,
Kinestetic
Writing
 INSTRUMENT OF THE RESEARCH

The instrument of this research is used a test in the form of questioner. The researcher uses
a test from Victoria Chislett and A Chapmen. In this test, the researcher will count the
students that use learning style to help them to master the English skills. And to know
whether the students really master the listening, speaking, writing, or reading skills, the
researcher will study the score document from the teacher. From that document score the
researcher will find which students that master the speaking, listening, writing, or reading
skill.
 DATA COLLECTION

The researcher uses a test in the form of questioner and study the
document to collect the data. The first step that the researcher
does when collect the data is, get the score document from
speaking, listening, writing, and reading teacher. After get the
document and the name of the students, the researcher will give the
test in form of questioner to the students. The researcher only
gives the questioner one time and after that the researcher analyse
the data that the researcher gets from the students test in the
form of questioner.
 DATA ANALYSIS
STEP 1 STEP 3
Selecting the sampling distribution and establishing the
Making assumptions and meeting test requirement
critical region
Model : independent random sampling
Sampling distribution : X2 distribution
Level of measurement is nominal
α : 0.05
STEP 2 df (degree of freedom) : n – 4 = 4 – 1= 3
X2 (critical) : ± 7.815
Stating the null hypothesis of the research
Ho: µ1= µ2 (there is no positive and significant relationship between students learning Style and their
English proficiency).
The alternative hypothesis of the research is
Ha: µ1≠ µ2 (there is a positive and significant relationship between students learning Style and their
English proficiency.)
 STEP 4

Computing the test obtain

Using two formulations:
a. Coefficient contingency b. Chi Square
 STEP 5

Making a decision and interpreting the result of the test

If the result is negative it means that the relationship has a negative, then if the counting is
positive, so the relationship is positive. The we know whether the relation is week or strong we
can see the result of the counting. If the result closed with 1 it means that the relationship is
strong. But, if the result closed with 0 it means that the relationship is week.

If the t(obtain) is more than t(critical) it means that the Ho (Null Hypotheses) is rejected and
Ha (Alternate Hypotheses) is accepted. But if the t(obtain) is less than t(critical) it means that
the Ho (Null Hypotheses) is accepted and Ha (Alternate Hypotheses) is rejected.