Students’ Visualization in Reading and Their Cognitive Learning Styles (original) (raw)

Empirically visualizing the text being read into pictures, diagrams, or images evidently deepens students' reading comprehension. Given the evidence of its significance, this study aims students' reading comprehension observed from the namely field dependent (FD) experimental study, quasy-experimental research to be specific, was carried out. Fifty four fifth-semester students at Universitas Negeri Malang participated in this study. The findings were shockingly contradictory with the empirical evidence provided in previous studies. It is revealed that visualization strategy was proven to be significantly ineffective in enh some factors. However, the mean score of FI students in experimental group slightly above FD students.