Author (Penulis)

Ridho Rezky Pratama
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0103

Abstract

Writing is a complicate-complex skill. It is not an easy task for student to pass it. It creates an opinion for students that writing is very difficult to acquire. This problem can be caused by some factors, such as inappropriate teaching strategies applied by the teacher, low ability of students, and the materials used. However, in order to help the students to learn writing skil, Concept Mapping can be an appropriate source to be used in teaching writing. The objectives of this research are to know the students’ writing t before being taught using Concpet Mapping, to know the students’ writing after being taught using Concept Mapping, and the last to find out any effect of using Concept Mapping to students writing ability.. This research adopted quantitative and the design of the research was one group pretest-posttest to investigate the effect of using Concept Mapping on the students’ writing ability of the eight grade students at SMK Pelayaranan Hang Tuah Kediri. The sample of the research was class X Nautika B consisting of 23 students. This research was held in four meetings involved pre-test, first treatment, second treatment, and post-test. The researcher used the form of paragraph construction task as the instrument to collect the data. To analyze the data, the researcher applied the rubric of writing and using t-test to know the effect of the treatments. The SPSS data in the research showed the means of before treatment is 79,65 , while the means of after treatment is 87,9. From this result the researcher found that the t-test is higher than t-table (3,326 > 1,717) and P value t-test is lower than level of significance of 5% (0.003 < 0,05). It means that H0 was rejected and HA was accepted. It can be conclude that teaching writing by using Concept Mapping gives significant effect on students’ writing ability From the finding above, it can be concluded that Concept Mapping is effective on students’ writing ability because this technique was increasing the students writing ability. This result hopefully can help the teacher to find another teaching technique for writing descriptive text so it can improved students’ writing ability.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-13

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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