THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLE

The aim of this research is to find out the types of learning style which students have. The population in this study was the students of English Department in academic year 2017 which amounted to 24 students. The research was conducted at Muslim University of Maros (UMMA), South Sulawesi. This research was a qualitative descriptive research. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaires and documents. The questionnaires in this research were used to determine what learning styles were dominated by students in the learning process. The results of the learning style analysis of the students showed that there are 12 (50%) students were categorized as visual learners, 8 (33%) students were categorized as auditory learner, and 4 (16%) students were categorized as visual-auditory learners.


INTRODUCTION
The brain is a vital part of every human being. The ability of the brain that is owned by every human is different both in absorbing, processing and conveying information. The brain has two different functions, where the left and right brain will form the nature, characteristics and different abilities in a person. A large brain or cerebrum is the largest part of the brain that processes all abilities and does something. The left hemisphere is logical, analiytic, quantitative, rational and verbal. The right hemisphere is conceptual, holistic intuitive, imaginative and non-verbal. Big brain or cerebrum divided into the left and right hemisphere which of course has a different function. According to Herrman (1996) in Eloff & Ebersohn (2004) "physical connections secure integrated brain activity, although each hemisphere is specialized in a different way".
There are several ways that can be done to determine whether a person is dominant to right brain or left brain dominant. For example by looking at everyday behavior, how to dress, by filling a special designed questionnaire or with Electroencephalograph equipment that can observe which part of the brain is most active. According to Dahar (1989: 45), in Wahab, Nuraeni SELTICS Vol. 3, No. 1, June 2020 42 (Syarfuni & Verawati, 2017) maturity and ability to think is also supported by Piaget's theory that the peak of cognitive structure development, students are able to think logically for all kinds of verbal problems, using scientific reasoning and acceptable views of others in the formal period (11.0-adults).
Maximum learning outcome of course cannot be separated from every human being in functioning brain with unique characteristic between left brain and right brain. The right brain has the characteristic Long term memory while the left hemisphere is classified in Sort term memory. Brown (2000) (Slavin, 2011: 56) in (Syarfuni & Verawati, 2017

Research method
This research employed a descriptive research design in qualitative approach. Gay et al (2006:9) defined a qualitative research as the collection, analysis, and interpretation of comprehensive narrative and visual (nonnumerical) data in order to gain insights into a particular phenomenon of the interest.

Population
The population of this study was the students of English Language Education in academic year 2017 with 24 students.

Data analysis
The instrument used in this research was questionnaire as the main instrument to collect data. The questionnaires in this research were used to determine what learning styles were dominated by students in the learning process.

Data Analysis Procedure
Data analysis used in this research was descriptive analysis method. It means that, there is no data manipulation because all analyzes based on real condition. The data collected from questionnaire was analyzed by tabulating the students learning style results and it was calculated into number to find out students learning style. The data in the analysis used the formula P = f / nx100% (Arikunto, 2002: 23).

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
The questionnaires were aimed to appraise which way students prefer to learn. It described the characteristics of those students in some learning style. Based on the data analysis, the findings showed that there were three kinds of learning style of students dominant, which were visual, auditory and visual-auditory.

Learning style Students Percentage
Visual 12 50% Auditory 8 33% Visual-auditory 4 16% The Furthermore, the students learn in many different ways. By knowing learning style of them, the students and the teacher gain a better understanding how well students learn material. Each of them needs to evaluate the way students prefer to learn or to get process information. So, students would be able to develop their learning strategies which would increase students learning potential.

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
The conclusion Based on the results of the research that has been described above,