Author (Penulis)

ALIF SYAHRIL MUNA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0027

Abstract

ABSTRACT Alief Syahril Muna. The Effect of Semantic Mapping Technique on Students’ Writing Ability in Descriptive Text at Eighth Grade of SMPN 2 Ngadiluwih Academic Year 2015/2016. English Department. The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. Nusantara PGRI Kediri University. Key word: Writing, Technique, Semantic Mapping. Writing skills also give the special instruction in spelling, handwriting, and key boarding. Beside that, writing skills can build the fluency and confidence for students and provide the variety of strategy and opportunity to apply it. In writing skills, the students are expected to understand the instruction involving grammar, usage, paragraph composition, and sentence structure. Writing is a complex process and sometimes used as a production mode of learning, reinforcing or testing grammatical concept. There are two purposes of this study: to know whether or not there is effect of semantic mapping technique to the students’ writing ability in descriptive text at eighth grade of SMPN 2 Ngadiluwih Academic Year 2015/2016 and to find and to know whether or not semantic mapping technique affect to the students’ attitude toward writing at eighth grade of SMPN 2 Ngadiluwih Academic Year 2015/2016. The design of this study is pre-experimental design. The population of the study was the eight grade students of SMPN 2 Ngadiluwih and the sample was class 8-C which consists of 27 students. The instrument of this research were test and questionnaire. The test was used to measure the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before and after being taught by using semantic mapping. While the questionnaire was used to know the students’ attitude towards semantic mapping. The data of the test were presented in the form of mean scores. It was found that the mean score of the pre-test was 72,35 while the mean score of the post-test was 76,53. Then, it was analyzed using t-test. The result shows that semantic mapping is effective to be used to teach writing descriptive text. It is proved by the result of t-score (7,83) which is higher than t-table (2,763) in the level of significance 1%. The students have positive attitudes towards mind mapping especially in the behavioral aspect. The conclusion of this research are Semantic mapping technique help students to improve their achievement in writing descriptive text. Semantic mapping technique is proved give a very significant effect to the students’ writing ability. The students have positive attitudes towards this technique. Based on the conclusion above, it is suggested: The English teacher should use semantic mapping technique in teaching writing descriptive text since it can give students chance to be more active in teaching and learning process. Hopefully, the other researcher will have the similar research with the other kind of genre text.

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-07

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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