THE EFFECT OF TEACHING STRATEGIES AND LEARNING STYLE ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

Reading comprehension plays a central role in human life. Unfortunately, most of students just read without knowing what they read. Teaching strategies (CORI and K-W-L) and learning style (introvert, extrovert) affect the strategy and way that students prefer to learn reading comprehension. This research examined teaching strategies and learning style as one possible factor affecting students’ reading comprehension. The objectives of this research were to see if; (1) students’ reading comprehension achievement taught by using CORI significantly higher than taught by K-W-L strategy, (2) students’ reading comprehension achievement with introvert style higher than extrovert style and (3) a significant interaction between teaching strategies (CORI, K-W-L) and learning style (introvert, extrovert) on students’ reading comprehension achievement. The subject for this research were eleventh grade students from SMA N. 1 Tanjung Morawa. The instrument for this research were reading comprehension test and questionnaire sheet. The data were analyzed using ANOVA, Scheefe Test. Based on the analysis, there were found that: (1) students’ reading comprehension achievement taught by using CORI is significantly higher than taught by K-W-L strategy (67.52 > 59.33), (2) students’ reading comprehension achievement with introvert style is higher than extrovert style (69.42 > 57.43), and (3) there is interaction between teaching strategies and learning style ( 4.82 > 4.00).