A COMPARATIVE
STUDY BETWEEN FIELD-INDEPENDENT AND FIELD-DEPENDENT STUDENTS IN READING
COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT
In
relation to personality, at least two types
of personalities associated with the environment. In
spite of it all, this is related to the personality of each individual, whether
they are independent or dependent students.
The differences of their personalities can happen
because many factors that influence the
students. The way of thinking, attitude and
also students personality are psychological
factors which may influence their achievement in
teaching-learning process. Teacher professionality in
explaining and presenting the material may influence students’
achievement. Besides personality, teachers should
also be able to place the students who have
field dependence and field independence, because
such personalities may greatly affect their achievement.
Among the
factors which may have much influence on
language learning are cognitive and affective factors. One of the
styles of learning is cognitive style that can be defined as
a term used in cognitive psychology to
describe the way individuals think, perceive and
remember information (Mulyani, 2011). Field dependent
and field independent are included in style of learning. In this research, the
writer will focus her research on field independent and field dependent as one
of cognitive style in style of learning.??????
