Ayudia Yolanda Putri (2012) THE EFFECT OF USING SEMANTIC MAPPING STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMAN 3 PEKANBARU. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Based on Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP), listening is one of the skills that must be taught and learned in senior high school. SMAN 3 Pekanbaru is one of the schools which use it as guidance in teaching learning process. After doing preliminary observation at SMAN 3 Pekanbaru, some of the students of the second year still have low ability in listening. Therefore, the researcher interested to conduct this research with objectives: (1) to find out how the students’ listening comprehension taught by using conventional strategy is (2) to find out how the students’ listening comprehension taught by using semantic mapping strategy is (3) to find out whether there is or not any significant effect of using semantic mapping strategy towards students’ listening comprehension at the second year of SMAN 3 Pekanbaru. The type of this research was quasi-experimental research. The researcher administered pre-test and post-test in this research as well. For the samples, the researcher took two classes, control and experimental class, that consists of 30 students for each class. In collecting the data, the researcher used listening test and it was evaluated using the assessment provided by the school. The test used purposed to find out the students’ listening comprehension of the second year grade at SMAN 3 Pekanbaru. The technique in analyzing the data was regression formula in order to find out the effect of the strategy. The scores of post-test between control and experimental class were analyzed by using that formula. The analysis was done by using SPSS 16 Version. Finally, the researcher concludes that there is a significant effect of semantic mapping strategy toward listening comprehension of the second year students at SMAN 3 Pekanbaru by considering Fcalculated = 14.031 is higher than F 0.05,1,28 = 4.20 or α = 0.05 is higher than Sig. = 0.001. It means that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted.

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