It is expected that thinking style in the educational process will make a significant contribution to social change and will suit the demands of the time. According to statement of the problem above, the general purpose of the study is to describe whether there is any correlation between students' thinking style and students' English performance of students in tenth grade of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in academic year. The result of the study is expected to help the students to know their type of thinking style.
Studying the relationship between principled thinking style and organizational health of high school in east of Tehran. Thinking style is one of the important topics that have been considered in the field of humanities, epistemology and the behaviors and attitudes of people such as directors can be discussed in different fields. 12. Consider some of the variables that are likely to influence the development of thinking styles.20 The development of thinking styles has more types, there are.
Children are now expected to be socialized into the largely consistent values of the school.
English Achievement
Learning English is defined as a process of thinking activities to consciously understand the English concept and English principles and then apply them in other situations or environments. Listening is an active, purposeful process of making sense of what we hear.24 The main reason for teaching listening is because it helps students learn language unconsciously even if teachers do not draw attention to its special features. 25 The process of listening performance is the invisible, inaudible process of internalizing meaning from the. Basic, entry-level textbooks in a foreign language presuppose a student's reasoning ability if only because it is a book that is the medium. 27.
On the other hand, Reading is a set of skills that involves making sense and deriving meaning from the printed words.28 It can therefore be concluded that reading is a fluent process of readers extracting information from a text and their combine own background knowledge to build meaning. Speaking is a productive skill that can be observed directly and empirically; those observations are invariably colored by the accuracy and efficiency of a test taker's listening skills, which inevitably compromises the reliability and validity of an oral production test.31 In terms of speaking, it is the learner's ability to use language principles to compensate for gaps. in skill and knowledge.32 It consists in the production of systematic verbal utterances to convey meaning.
Previous study
Ali Abdi, Department of Educational Sciences Azad University of Kermanshah branch, Iran with "A study on the relationship of thinking styles of students and their critical thinking skills"33. This study examines the relationship between thinking styles and critical thinking skills among university students. 33 Ali Abdi, A Study on the Relationship of Thinking Styles of Students and Their Critical Thinking Skills, Department of Educational Sciences Azad University of Kermanshah Branch, Iran.
This research study investigates the relationship between thinking styles and metacognitive awareness of Iranian senior EFL students and the contribution of thinking styles to metacognition. In addition, this study made an important contribution to the current literature on thinking styles and metacognition.
Theoretical Framework
Educators can improve students' cognitive development by encouraging students to engage in a variety of thinking styles in their task performance. These tasks can, according to the results of the present study, be of both an educational and an interpersonal nature. In particular, tasks that require students to think critically and to work with others can promote relativistic reasoning and counteract dualistic reasoning.
People with different thinking styles use their abilities in different ways and respond according to their thinking style. From the above statement, we have two variables, which are thinking style (X) and students' achievement in English (Y).
Hypothesis
RESEARCH METHOD
- Research Design
- Instrument of Data
- Technique of Collecting the Data
- Technique of Analyzing the Data
The next step, using product moment correlation analysis, used to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students' thinking style and students' English performance in tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in academic year 2015/2016 or not. Meanwhile, the document consists of the list of the tenth grade student of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro and the document with the score of the English subject. Validation is intended to determine whether the instrument is worthwhile or not when asked to the Senior High School level of students.
Then the students are asked to choose the two natures that best describe themselves. In addition, the results of the answers entered by the students in the column were then added and multiplied (see Appendix 1)46 And then, the highest score shows the thinking style of the most dominant. The documentation method is used to find data from written documentation such as daily record, transcript, book, newspaper.47 In this research, the documentation is used to obtain some data on student achievement in English of tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5. Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016.
The questionnaire used to determine the thinking style of the students by completing the questionnaire given to each student to fill in accordance with the actual situation. The questionnaire used to obtain the thinking style data, to determine which thinking style of the students is the most dominant. This thinking style questionnaire is the result of John Le Tellier's development and Gregorc's adaptability results validated by a psychologist.
The data in this research is the result of English survey and the questionnaire about students' thinking style. To find out the relationship between students' thinking style and students' English performance, the researcher uses Pearson Product Moment correlation. Mx = Mean (students' thinking style) . ∑fx = the total number of scores multiplication of deviation and frequency).
Meanwhile, to know whether there is a significant correlation between students' thinking style and students' English achievement in the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro or not. Cx´ = Correlation value in variable x (students' thinking style) Cy´ = Correlation value in variable y (students' English . achievement).
RESEARCH RESULT
Research Location
- Background of the School
- Location of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro
- School organization Structure 54
- Vision and Mission of School a. Vision
- Educational Personality and Staffs
- Fasilitates and Infrastructures 55
The vision on SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro is .. achievement, ability and personality value based on faith and piety. The teacher's role is often formal and ongoing, carried out through the profession or profession in a school in another place of formal education. The facilities and infrastructures at SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro consist of: The building condition contains classroom, principal's room, teachers' room, administration room, students.
In addition, the educational support for teaching and learning is 15 computers (laboratory), 2 printers, 1 LCD, 1 cabinet, 1 television, 270 student desks, 356 student chairs and 2 school fields.
Data Description
- The score of students’ thinking style
- The score of students’ English achievement
- Students’ thinking style and students’ English achievement The result of questionnaires and documentations of students’
In this description to get data, the researcher conducted by giving a questionnaire about students' thinking style to tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro. The table above can conclude that the highest score of the students' thinking style is 52 and the lowest score is 36. The researcher took the students' English performance from the student's Grade Point Average (GPA).
Students' thinking style and students' English performance. The result of student questionnaires and documentation. The result of student questionnaires and documentation.
Data Analysis
- The normality and the homogenity test of students’ thinking style and students’ English achievement at tenth grade students of SMK
Purwantoro
- The analysis of students’ thinking style and students’ English achievement at tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5
- The analysis correlation between students’ thinking style and students’ English achievement at tenth grade students of SMK
- Interpretation
- Discussion
The analysis of students' thinking style and students' English performance of tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 performance of tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016. The researcher used the questionnaire method to collect data and GPA of students' English performance of tenth grade students at SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016. The analysis of students' thinking style of tenth grade students at SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016.
Categorization of students' thinking style in the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016. Thus, it can be said that the thinking style of students in the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro is sufficient. Analysis of student achievement in English in the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016.
Based on the above categorization, it can be seen that the researcher lists the students' English achievement in the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the high category with a frequency of 6 respondents (19.35%), in the sufficient category with a frequency of 20 respondents (64.52%) and low category with a frequency of 5 respondents (16.13%). Thus, it can be said that the students' English achievement in the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro is sufficient. In the academic year 2015/2016, there is a significant correlation between students' way of thinking and students' achievement in English in the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro.
There is no significant relationship between students' thinking style and students' English performance by tenth grade student of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016. This means that there was significant correlation between students' thinking style and students' English performance in tenth grade students at SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in the academic year 2015/2016. On the other hand, students' English performance of tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro in high category with.
It means that there was a significant correlation between students' thinking style and students' achievement in English in the tenth grade of SMK Muhammadiyah 5 Purwantoro academic year 2015/2016. Based on the above explanation, it is shown that students' thinking style affects students' English achievement.
CLOSING
Conclusion
Recomendation 1. for the Teacher
- For the student
In the teaching-teaching process, the teacher should give motivation to the students so that the students are eager to learn and understand the material easily. In the teaching process, the teacher should use the media because it makes the students learn English more excited. The writer hopes that the students will have a great motivation to improve their English skills and they should have a good self-confidence to learn.
Actually, if you get less score, it's not your fool, but it's that you don't know the thinking style accurately. Ali Abdi, A study of the relationship between students' thinking styles and their critical thinking skills, Department of Educational Sciences Azad University of Kermanshah branch, Iran. Mehdi Shariatmadari, (2015) the relationship between features of thinking style and academic achievement motivation among students of payame noor University, Iran, Indian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Life Sciences vol: 5 ISSN.