Author (Penulis)

Intan Nurmalasari
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0017

Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is one of English language skills that should be taught in school. Writing is the practice of thinking to invent ideas, thinking about how to express into good writing and arranging the ideas into statement and paragraph clearly. The problems of the research, the students seldom practice to write composition even in their native language, difficult in generating structure, spelling, the lack of vocabulary, and mechanic. The purpose this research is to describe whether or not mind mapping technique is effective for teaching writing is applied in writing ability on the students’ writing ability of seventh grade of SMPN 1 Mojo in Academic Year 2015-2016. The result of the data which has been computed by the formula, the researcher found that t-observed was 24 at the degree of freedom 28, t-table was 2,060 at the level of significance 5% and 2,787 at the level of significance 1%. It means that t-observed (24) > t-table at the degree of significance of 5% and 1%. So, t-observed was very significant. The null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. ). So, we can say that t-score is higher than t-table at the level significant 1%. It means that there is a significant difference between the result of seventh grade students’ pre-test and post-test. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that mind mapping is effective for students’ writing ability because the use of mind mapping helped the students to understand the writing, such as vocabulary, structure, generating idea, spelling, organization. KEY WORDS: Writing, Mind Mapping

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-07

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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