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her students in implementing reading ability by giving them a suitable strategy how the students learn to receive the message and information in understanding a
reading material. Therefore, the teacher’s role in assisting students in teaching
learning process and students’ intelligence will influence their capacity and ability in understanding a reading material.
Based on description above, the researcher is interested in carrying out the research entitled “The Effectiveness of Semantic Mapping to Teach Reading
Viewed from Students’ Intelligence.”
B. Identication of the Problems
Based on the background above, there are some problems that can be identified. The problems are as follows:
1. Why do the students have low reading ability?
2. What factors cause low reading ability?
3. How can semantic mapping help the students improve their reading ability?
4. How can the students with high intelligence get a better achievement in reading
ability than the students with low intelligence?
C. Limitation of the Problems
The researcher realizes that it is impossible to answer all the problems which have been identified above. Therefore, the problems of this study are
limited to some related variables. In this case, the researcher only focuses on the effect of semantic mapping and lecturing to teach reading viewed from studen
ts’ intellegence.
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D. Formulation of the Problems
Related to the indentification and limitation of the problems above, the researcher states the problems to be researched as follows:
1. Is semantic mapping more effective than lecturing to teach reading for the
eighth graders of of SMPN 12 Tasikmalaya? 2.
Do the students having high intellegence have better reading ability than those having low intellegence for the eighth graders of of SMPN 12 Tasikmalaya?
3. Is there any interaction between the teaching strategies and students’
intellegence in teaching reading?
E. Objective of the Study
In accordance with the problems above, this research is intended: 1.
To know weather the semantic mapping is more effective than lecturing in teaching reading at the eighth graders of SMPN 12 Tasikamalaya in the
academic year 20122013. 2.
To know weather the students having high intellegence have better reading ability than those having low intellegence for the eighth graders of SMPN 12
Tasikmalaya in the academic year 20122013. 3.
To know weather there is an interaction between teaching strategies and students’ intellegence in teaching reading.
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F. Benefits of the Study
