THE EFFECT OF USING CONCEPT MAPPING LEARNING STRATEGY ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

As part of learning strategies, Concept Mapping Strategy (CMS) has been used in teaching reading in EFL context and has become an important issue of investigation. Some advantages of using CMS are: (1) it allows students to think deeply about concepts and to store information more effectively in their memory; (2) CMS is an excellent exercise for the promotion of creative thinking and identification of new problem solving method; (3) CMS improves students’ ability to learn autonomously and become independent language learners; (4) CMS organizes different concepts and visualizes the relationship between the main concepts; (5) CMS allows students to concentrate only on the key concepts and ideas. This research was intended to investigate the effect of using CMS on students’ reading comprehension achievement of report text. The research area was SMK Negeri 5 Jember. The research participants i.e. the experimenta; and control class were determined by using cluster random sampling after testing the mean scores of the English test using ANOVA. Based on the calculation of ANOVA, XI PMT 1 was chosen as the experimental class, while XI PMT 2 was chosen as the control class. The design of this research was a quasi-experimental research with pot-test only design. In this design, the experimental and control class received different treatments. The experimental class was taught by CMS, while the control class was taught by scientific approach. The post-test was given to the both classes after they received the treatments. Based on the result of Independent sample T-test, it was found that the value of significant (2 tailed) was 0,00. Thus, it can be concluded that the hypothesis (H0) was rejected while the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In other word, it can be said that there was a significant effect of using Concept Mapping learning strategy on students’ reading comprehension achievement. Considering the finding of this research, it is suggested for the English teacher to use Concept Mapping Learning Strategy to help students comprehend English text better