Learning Habits and Learning Styles of Students in Indonesia EFL Classroom

This research aim to find out; (1) the learning habits of the third-semester students of English Department of FKIP UKI Toraja, (2) the learning styles used of the third-semester students of English Department of FKIP UKI Toraja, (3) the learning achievement by the third-semester students of English Department of FKIP UKI Toraja, (4) whether there is a correlation between students’ habit and learning achievement by the third-semester students of English Department of FKIP UKI Toraja, (5) whether there is a correlation between students’ styles and learning achievement by the third-semester students of English Department of FKIP UKI Toraja. The research is mixed method. The participant of the research is the third-semester students of English Department of FKIP UKI Toraja. The sample consisted of 53 students. The data of this research were collected through learning habits questionnaire adapted and modified from Brown and Holtzman (1953) and learning style questionnaire adapted and modified from Deporter (1992). The data were analyzed by using SPSS 21 to get the quantitative data and the research interviewed the students to get the qualitative data. The research results show that (1) 13 students (25%) got a good category, 40 students (75%) got an average category and no student got a poor category. (2) 32 students (60%) visual learning style, five students (9%) auditorial/ aural learning style, seven students (13%) readingwriting learning styles, three students (6%) kinesthetic learning style, two students (4%) visual and aural learning style, one student (2%) aural and reading-writing learning style, one student (2%) visual, aural and reading-writing learning style, one student (2%) readingwriting and kinesthetic learning style and one student (2%) visual and kinesthetic learning style. (3) There was a significant correlation between learning habits and learning achievement of the third-semester students of English Department of FKIP UKI Toraja which coefficients correlation “r” was 0.804 and significant (2-tailed) was 0.035 which is smaller than α0.05. (4) The correlation between students’ learning style and learning achievement was medium that the correlation “r” was 0.548 and the significant (2 tailed) was 0.084 which is bigger than α0.05. Keywords: Correlation, Learning Habits, Learning Style and Learning Achievemen