Learning Styles and English Achievement of Agriculture and Livestock Faculty Students at Language Center of SUSKA Islamic State University Riau

Learning styles are believed to affect learning achievement. This research aims to find out the most preferred learning style and English achievement of Agriculture and Livestock Faculty students at Language Center of SUSKA Islamic State University Riau. Based on the theory, perceptual as the commonly proposed learning style in language learning consists of visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, group, and individual, are identified to propose an alternative solution to the problem of mismatching between students‟ preferred style and English lecturers‟ way of teaching. This research is a descriptive quantitative research which involving 29 students of class IIA at Agriculture and Livestock Faculty in 2012/2013 Academic year as the subject. Questionnaire and test were used. The data were analyzed through Reid‟s calculation of the score of each style and the score of the English achievement of the students. Data analysis was interpreted, and the research finding was gained. The finding of the research shows that there are 23 students or 79.3% (from 29) mostly prefer kinesthetic learning style as the highest percentage among the other five styles (auditoria, tactile, visual, group, and individual sequentially). It also shows that related to their English achievement, 3 high-scored students or 75% (from 4) possess kinesthetic and auditoria, 15 medium-scored students or 75% (from 20) possess tactile and kinesthetic and 5 low-scored students or 100% (from 5) possess kinesthetic and group style. In conclusion, the students do not only prefer to kinesthetic learning style, but they also have one other dominant contiguous style for each group.