THE EFFECT OF ICT AND LEARNING STYLES ON STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to find out whether there is any significant difference result of writing achievement between learning styles (introvert and extrovert), whether there is any significant difference result of writing achievement in the use of ICT (Blog and Facebook), and whether there is a significant interaction of learning style and the use of ICT on students’ writing achievement. A quantitative analysis that included descriptive statistics (mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation, and the distribution of frequency in histograms), and inferential analysis (ANOVA) tests were conducted to answer the research questions of this study.

The respondents of this study were the fifth semester students (regular class) taking the Writing IV program at English department of Pamulang University academic year 2015/2016. Out of 90 students of the population, 48 (24 introvert and 24 extrovert) were chosen as the samples based on the cluster random sampling. To collect data, the study used two kinds of instruments: a writing test, and two questionnaires. The result of this study revealed that out of two independent variables, only the variables of learning style affected students’ writing achievement (p – value < 0.05) with mean score extrovert students were higher than introvert students. However, the different use of ICT did not give significant effect on students’ writing achievement (p – value > 0.05). But the overall use of both facebook and blog through different students’ learning styles had not shown significant interaction on students’ writing achievement (p – value > 0.05). Thus only one alternate hypothesis was accepted in this study.

Keywords: Learning styles, the use of ICT, writing achievement