Author (Penulis)

TROPI NAGA PUSPITA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0203

Abstract

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 areexpected to understand the instruction involving grammar, usage, paragraph composition, and sentence structure. Writing is a skill in learning language that must be mastered by everyone especially for students because writing is a final product after learners have studied about listening, speaking and reading. There are two purposes of this study: To know students’ ability in Writing Recount Text before and after taught using Mind Mapping at Eighth grade of SMPN 6 KEDIRI Academic year 2014/2015. The design of this study is pre-experimental design. The population of the study was the eight grade students of SMPN 6 Kediri and the sample was class 8-A which consists of 36 students. The instrument of this research were test. The test was used to measure the students’ achievement in writing recount text before and after being taught by using mind 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 77,14 while the mean score of the post-test was 79,67. Then, it was analyzed using t-test. The result shows that mind mapping is effective to be used to teach writing recount text. It is proved by the result of t-score (10,65) which is higher than t-table (2,24) in the level of significance 1%. Some of the advantages of this Mind mapping strategy help students to improve their achievement in writing recount text. And also tomotivate students to improve their interest in writing recount text. Mind mapping strategy is proved give a very significant effect to the students’ writing ability.

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Reference

PUBLISHED

2016-02-10

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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