Saputra, Deni Angga (2011) The Influence of Using Semantic Mapping on Reading Comperehension at The Eleventh Graders of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Purbolinggo in The Academic Year of 2011/2012. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo.

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Abstract

Reading comprehension is the important one, because by reading we canget much information we need easily, but the fact, to comprehend text is not easy.We need special technique in reading comprehension. Therefore, the researchertried to investigate special technique which in this research the researcher focusedto the use of semantic mapping technique.The objective of this research is to investigate whether the use of semanticmapping technique influence on the students’ reading comprehension at theeleventh graders of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Purbolinggo. Subject in this researchwere eleventh graders. In this research, the students were given pre-test beforeconducting of research without giving treatment and post-test after conducting ofthe research and the researcher gave treatment after conducting the research.

This research is quantitative research and conducted at SMAMuhammadiyah 1 Purbolinggo with the sample 63 students. Cluster sampling isused to determine the sample. In data collecting method the researcher applied testmethod. The researcher used test to measure the level of students’ readingcomprehension. To know the level of the students’ reading comprehension theresearcher used multiple choice tests which consist 20 items in readingcomprehension text form. To know whether there is influence of using semanticmapping technique on the students’ reading comprehension the researcheranalyzed the data by using t-test.

Finally, the data indicated that “tobserved” is 2.582 is bigger than “ttable” is1.990. Therefore, it can be concluded that Hi is accepted and Ho is rejected. Itmeans that there is a positive and significance influence of using semanticmapping technique on the students reading comprehension at the eleventh gradersof SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Purbolinggo.

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