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rules. The students having low intelligence prefer listening to the teachers’ explanation, feeling shy and passive during the teaching learning process
rather than practicing the language in their daily life. That is why it is supposed that there is an interaction between
teaching methods and students’ intelligence in teaching reading. Contextual Teaching and Learning is suitable for students having high
intelligence and Grammar Translation Method is suitable for students having low intelligence.
D. Hypothesis
Based on the rationale above, the hypotheses proposed in this research are as follows:
1. Contextual teaching and learning is more effective than grammar translation method for teaching reading.
2. The students having high intelligence have better reading comprehension than the students having low intelligence.
3. There is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ intelligence in teaching reading.
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III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of the Research
The research was carried out at SMP N 14 Surakarta which is located at Jl. Prof. WZ. Johannes No. 54, Surakarta. The research was held from
December ‘09 to June, 2010. The following is the time schedule for the research.
Table 5. The Time Schedule for the Research Activities
Dec ‘09
Jan ‘10
Feb ‘10
Mar ‘10
Apr ‘10
May ‘10
Jun ‘10
Proposal Reviewing literatures
Developing instruments Doing treatment
Collecting and analyzing the data
Writing the report Submitting
the document
B. Research Method
According to Ary 2007: 39 there are four different categories developed in classifying educational research: experimental, experimental ex-
post facto, descriptive, and historical studies. The framework used in this research is quantitative research. It means the hypotheses of the research will
be concluded through various techniques such as: collecting, describing, and
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research is also categorized as an experimental study since it attempts to give treatment to experimental group and maintain control over all factors that may
affect the result of an experiment. In other words, the experimental research attempts to investigate the influence of one or more variables to other
variables Nana Syaodih, 2006: 57. Experimental research has some characteristics as follows: 1
manipulation or treatment of an independent variable; 2 other extraneous
variables are controlled; and 3 effect is observed of the manipulation of the independent variable on the dependent variable Donald Ary, 2007: 338.
This experimental research is aimed at observing whether there is an interaction between teaching methods and intelligence for teaching reading.
The technique used in conducting the experiment is by comparing the experimental group which is taught by contextual teaching and learning
method and the control group taught by grammar translation method. Each group is classified into two different levels of intelligence quotient: the high
and the low.
C. Research Design
