A CASE STUDY OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENT ON A LEARNING STYLE AND LEARNING STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH LEARNING IN VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHARITABLE INSTITUTION AISIYAH PONOROGO

This research aimed to find out: (1) the difficulties that faced by Visually Impaired Students (2) the learning style that used by Visually Impaired Students (3) the learning strategies that used by Visually Impaired Students. The type of research is descriptive qualitative research in the form of case study. There are three visually impaired students, teacher, orphanage caregiver involved in this research. In this research, the researcher used three instruments. They are observation, questionnaire and interview. Further the data analysis used Miles and Huberman model with the steps as following: data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The result shows that the difficulties are appearing because there were in inclusive class. Almost of them are difficult when the learning process are seeing the media such as presentation or watching a visual picture or videos. Each student with visual impairment has different learning strategies. The researcher classified that One students has memory strategies, compensation strategies and social strategies. One student use affective strategies. One student use metacognitive strategies. Based on the learning style, the most of visually impaired students are auditory learners. It can seen from all of Visually Impaired Students said that it more easier when listening to the teachers but if they didn’t understand they wrote the material first on the notebook. So, the Visually Impaired Student easier to understand the material that given by the teacher through listening. Visually Impaired Student at Charitable Institution ‘Aisyiyah Ponorogo didn’t have visual learning style because they were totally blind