Author (Penulis)

SUCI PUSMAWATI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0192

Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is a process of expresing ideas by creating or producting a writen form to communicate with readers. Writing has been considered as an important skill in learning a language. The students find difficulties to explore their ideas and they have limited vocabularies. In order to solve the students’ problem, the researcher offers a solution to teach writing by using Mind Mapping. The purposes of this research is (1) to know the students’ writing ability before and after being taught by using mind mapping, (2) to find the effect of using mind mapping learning in teaching writing at the seventh grade students of smpn 1 Kandat Kediri academic year 2016/2017. The research technique was experimental research with population seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Kandat and the sample was 7-E which consists of 40 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used pre-test, treatments, and post-test by writing in form of essay. The result shows the score of post-test (3,490) was higher than pre-test (2,710). It means that the students’ score increased. Furthermore, from calculation of t-table and t-test, it can be seen that t-test was 8.74, so that the t-table was 2.704 at the level of significance of 1% and 2.021 at the level of significance of 5%. Therefore, the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. From the result concluded that mind mapping gave significant effect to the student’s writing ability. The students became easier in develop their ideas. It can be seen from their written test which the contents, structure, and their vocabularies were better than their pre-test. Key words: Writing, Writing ability, Mind Mapping

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Reference

PUBLISHED

2017-02-19

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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