Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Keywords: learning style, natural science students, social science students, reading comprehension this study was intended to discover which type of sensory learning style mostly preferred by students from natural science and social science majors at sma negeri 8 banda aceh. it was also aimed at investigating significant difference between students’ learning style preferences and their reading comprehension achievement. the study was presented in quantitative method and designed in causal comparative research. it took 23 natural science and 23 social science students as the subject of this study, with total number of 46 participants. a learning style questionnaire and a reading comprehension test were employed for gathering the data. analysis of variance (anova) was used to analyze the data. the study revealed that students from natural science and social science majors mostly preferred different types of sensory learning style while comprehending reading materials. most natural science students were visual learner, meanwhile the majority of social science students were auditory learner. in addition, the result of anova was 0.121. since the result of anova was higher than the significant critical value of the research (? = 0.05), it meant that there was no significant difference toward students’ learning style preference to their reading comprehension achievement.