Hypotheses of the Study Significance of the Study

sub-strategy of semantic mapping such as List-Group-Label strategy, Think- Alouds strategy and Somebody-Wanted-But-So strategy are appropriate in teaching reading of narrative text. Those theory are simply but have many effectiveness. There are several advantage, as follow those strategies give a variety in teaching process, each strategy has main purpose to enhance the reading comprehend of the students, and the strategies more fun to apply in teaching reading. Theoretically, this research will help the researcher of further research to find out the new strategy which is supported and combined with semantic mapping strategy through reading a text. 2 Pedagogical significance a. Students It may motivate the students to improve their interest in reading ability with a pleasure and not only read one type of text but also they can be enthusiastic for other many kinds of texts. The students can actively participate and make a discussion in every session of English lesson in class. They will move freely and individually with their own presentation to make a good result of their understanding too without depend on their teacher perspective all the time. Their improvement of interest in reading comprehension will help them to get much knowledge, information and master English well. So they can easily understand what does the text tell about by using semantic mapping strategy. b. Teachers The teacher will get new suggestion about teaching process that semantic mapping strategy can be used for teaching reading comprehension of several kinds of texts for Junior High School students. The teacher will be motivated to use the semantic mapping strategy for other skills in English besides reading skill. So many kinds of strategies which include in semantic mapping strategy can applied in four skills of English lesson. The teacher will be more creative and active to get more knowledge of good teaching. The teacher also can be interest to find another strategy, method or technique to improve their ways in teaching-learning process of English subject. 3 Practical significance Practically, the outcome of this research study is expected to give feedback to English teachers, especially those who teach at eighth grade students of SMPN 6 Semarang. The feedback of this research which about the use of semantic mapping strategy in teaching narrative text reading comprehension will be a breakthrough in developing teaching and learning process of English subject. For the readers, the strategies which are applied in this research can enrich their insights to learn reading and also give them knowledge to master reading by using semantic mapping strategy. By doing reading they will get more information and knowledge to improve their capability to face their future especially in education.

1.7 Limitation of the Study

The writer limits this study by the following limitation. 1 This observation is only conducted for the eighth grade students of SMPN 6 Semarang in the academic year of 20122013. 2 The strategy used in this study is semantic mapping strategy which is focus on narrative reading comprehension for the eighth grade students of SMPN 6 Semarang in the academic year of 20122013.

1.8 Definition of Terms

The writer defines the terms are used in this study there are the term of reading comprehension, the term of semantic mapping strategy, the term of skimming and scanning and the term of narrative text by the following: Mcknight 2000 believed that reading comprehension, or the construction of meaning while reading, is the goal of reading and is not a solitary and simple process. It is a complex and dynamic process in which the reader decodes the writer’s words and draws on his own background knowledge to construct understanding of the text that is similar to the writer’s intent. Comprehension relies on the reader’s experiences, knowledge about language, knowledge of the text structures and genres, meta-cognitive, basic reasoning abilities and active engagement. Heimlich, J. E., Pittelman, S. V. 1986 explained that a Semantic Map is one type of graphic organizer. It helps students visually organize and graphically show the relationship between one piece of information and another. This strategy has been identified by researchers as an excellent strategy for increasing vocabulary and improving reading comprehension. Semantic Mapping Strategy can be used to find out the content and meaning of vocabulary in