Hypothesis REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

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F. Hypothesis

Based on the theoretical description and the rationale above, the hypotheses can be formulated as follows: 1. Reciprocal teaching model is more effective than direct instructional model to teach reading at the forth semester students of the English Department of STAIN Zawiyah Cotkala Langsa. 2. The students who have high intelligence have better reading skill than the students who have low intelligence at the forth semester students of the English Department of STAIN Zawiyah Cotkala Langsa. 3. There is an interaction effect between teaching models and students’ intelligence on the students’ reading skill of the forth semester students of the English Department of STAIN Zawiyah Cotkala Langsa. 41

CHAPTER III RES EARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Place and Time of the Study

This research has been conducted in Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri STAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa. This college is located on Jl. M eurandeh - kota Langsa - Nangroe Aceh Darussalam, phone 0641 23129 fax 0641425129. It has 3 faculties, they are: Syari’ah Faculty, Tarbiyah Faculty , and Da’wah Faculty. There is English Teaching Department or Tadris Bahasa InggrisTBI in Tarbiyah Faculty. This Department is the biggest class and it has 3-4 classes annually, which consist of 40 students in every class. This research has been done from January to M arch 2010.

B. Research Method

Experimental study is chosen in conducting this research. The purpose of experimental study is to determine cause-and-effect relationship. Through experimentations, cause and effect relationship can be identified. Because of this ability to identify caution, the experimental approach has come to represent the prototype of scientific method for solving problems Johnson and Christensen, 2000: 23. By experimental study, the researchers find out the effect of at least one independent variable on one or more dependent variable. This study