Endasari, Weni (2013) Increasing The Students’ Reading Comprehension Through The Use of Semantic Mapping Strategy at The Seventh Graders of Junior High School 2 Batanghari. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo.

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Abstract

The objective of the research was to examine whether the use of semanticmapping strategy can increase the students’ reading comprehension at the seventhgraders of Junior High School 2 Batanghari in the academic year 2012/2013.Semantic mapping strategy is one way to help students thought and visualize howword meanings can be categorized.

This research was a classroom action research. It was conducted in twocycles. The procedure of action research were planning, acting, observing, andreflecting. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation, tests,documentation, and the field note. The researcher was the teacher assisted bycollaborators as observers, while the researcher was implementing the research.The tests were in the form of pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed inqualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were analyzed by observation.The observation result of the students` observation sheet in cycle Iand cycle IIwere progress from 84.4% to 91%. Meanwhile the quantitative data were analyzedby taking the average score of pre-test and post-test. The average score resultincreased because in the pre-test was only 52.12, post-test I became 80, and post-test II became 82.12.The conclusion of the research was semantic mapping strategy couldincrease the students reading comprehension at the seventh graders of Junior HighSchool 2 Batanghari in the academic year 2012/2013.

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