Semantic Mapping Strategy on the Students’ Reading Comprehension at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 4 Bangkalan

Anisah, siti (2018) Semantic Mapping Strategy on the Students’ Reading Comprehension at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 4 Bangkalan. Other thesis, STKIP PGRI Bangkalan.

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Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Semantic Mapping Strategy, Narrative text. Reading is a skill that works as a communication way of a written text between a writer and a reader. By using this skill, the readers try to understand what the idea or the information of a text that wanted to deliver by the writer. Based on the researcher’s preliminary observation in SMAN 4 Bangkalan, the students feel bored to follow in learning reading in the class because they can not know the meaning of the text which is read. In this case, the researcher apply semantic mapping strategy as a strategy in teaching reading.The objective of this research to investigate the influence of semantic mapping strategy on the student’s reading comprehension at the tenth grade of SMAN 4 Bangkalan. The strategy is intended for the English teacher to use a better strategy in teaching reading. This research used experimental research. The researchers used a quasi-experimental research type. The experimental group was given the special treatment using semantic mapping strategy. The control group was given the conventional strategy namely textbook-based as the teacher usually does. The population in this research was eight classes from tenth grade and take 27 students from class X IPA 2 as control group and X IPA 3 as experimental group in SMAN 4 Bangkalan. Based on the data analysis by using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) test from SPSS 23, the result of ANCOVA test from p-value was 0.005. It is lower than the level of significant (0,05). If p-value is lower than the level of significant (0,05). It means that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. It can be concluded that the students taught by semantic mapping strategy have better achievement on reading comprehension narrative text at the tenth grade of SMAN 4 Bangkalan. Therefore, it showed that there was an influence of semantic mapping strategy on students reading comprehension narrative text at the tenth grade of SMAN 4 Bangkalan.

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