The Influence Of Story Mapping And Students’ Intelligence In Teaching Reading Comprehension (An Experimental Research In The Tenth Grade Of Sman 3 Surakarta In The Academic Year Of 2012 / 2013)

Oleh :
Dian Rachmawati - S891102009 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

The objectives of the research are to identify: (1) whether the story mapping is more effective than PQ4R in teaching reading for the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Surakarta in the academic year of 2012/2013; (2) whether the reading comprehension achievement of the students having high intelligence is better than that of those having low intelligence in learning English; and (3) whether there is an interaction between teaching strategies and intelligence in teaching reading for the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Surakarta in the academic year of 2012/2013. The research was carried out at SMA N 3 Surakarta, from July 2012 to September 2012. The research method was experimental. The subject of the research is the first grade students of X-1 and the first grade students of X-6. Each of them consists of 30 students. The first grade students of X-1 are as experimental class who were taught using Story Mapping strategies and the first grade students of X-6 are as control class who were taught using PQ4R strategies. The data were in the form of quantitative data and they were taken from a test. They are the scores of students’ reading test after having nine times treatment for each class. The researcher analyzed the data using ANOVA or analysis of variance and Tukey test. Based on the result of data analysis, the research findings are: (1) The Story Mapping strategy is more effective than PQ4R strategy to teach reading for the first grade students of senior high school; (2) The reading comprehension of the students having high intelligence is better than that of those having low intelligence; and (3) There is an interaction between teaching strategies and students’ intelligence. Based on these research findings, it can be concluded that Story Mapping strategy is an effective strategy to teach reading comprehension of the first grade students of SMA N 3 Surakarta. The result of the research implies that story mapping is a very effective teaching strategy for teaching reading. Story Mapping can be used to improve students’ reading as it can help them to generate, elaborate, and organize their ideas. Therefore, it is recommended that: (1) it is better for teachers to apply story mapping in the teaching and learning process; (2) the students use story mapping in learning reading as one of their meaningful strategies to overcome their problem in improving reading; and (3) the future researchers can conduct research of the same kind with different sample and different students’ condition.