The Effect of Cognitive Style and Learning Strategy on Students Ability in Writing Narrative Text
Tata Tambi, Fathiaty Murtadho, Zainal Rafli

Universitas Negeri Jakarta

Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of cognitive style and learning strategy on student^s narrative writing ability. It was conducted on the VII grade students at MTs Ibnu Taimiyah Bogor, West Java. The recent study involved 80 students which is then grouped into experimental and control classes. This experimental study applied treatment by level design and two-factorial ANOVA analysis. The findings showed that the ability of the field-independent students was higher than the ability of the field-dependent students in writing Indonesian narrative text.

Keywords: cognitive style, writing Indonesian narrative text, inquiry-based communicative learning strategy, expository-based communicative learning strategy

Topic: Education