U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 8, No 3 (2019): U-JET

The Implementation of Mind Mapping Technique to Improve Students' Writing Skill of Descriptive Text at The Second Grade Students of MTs N 3 Lampung Utara

Dedi Hermansyah (University of Lampung)
Sudirman Sudirman (University of Lampung)
Burhanuddin Burhanuddin (University of Lampung)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 Sep 2019

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat apakah ada peningkatan yang signifikan terhadap kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks deskripsi dan melihat aspek manakah yang paling meningkat setelah penerapan teknik mind mapping. Sasaran penelitian ini mencakup 25 siswa kelas VIII A di MTs N 3 Lampung Utara tahun akademik 2018/2019. Tes menulis yang mencakup pretest dan posttest diberikan sebagai alat untuk mengumpulkan data. Data yang diperoleh berupa nilai kemudian dianalisis menggunakan repeated measure T-test dengan tingkat signifikan p0.05. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa terdapat peningkatan yang signifikan terhadap kemampuan menulis siswa setelah mereka diajarkan menulis menggunakan teknik mind mapping. Aspek yang paling meningkat adalah aspek konten.Hasil ini menunjukan bahwa mengajar menggunakan teknik mind mapping dapat diterapkan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks deskripsi. The objectives of this research were to find out whether there was significant improvement on students’ writing skill of descriptive text and which aspect of writing improved the most after the implementation mind of mapping technique. The subjects of the research were 25 students of class VIII A at MTs N 3 Lampung Utara in academic year 2018/2019. The writing tests consisted of pretest and posttest were applied to collect the data. The data in form of score were analysed by using repeated measure T-test with the significant level p0.05. The result showed that there was significant improvement on students’ writing skill after they had been taught by using mind mapping technique. The aspect which improved the most was content. This suggests that teaching writing by using mind mapping technique can be applied to improve students’ skill in writing descriptive text. Keywords: writing, descriptive text, mind mapping technique.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...