<![CDATA[The research conducted aims to determine how the application of the Problem Based Learning model assisted by mind mapping techniques affects students' news text reading skills, the background of this research lies in: First, students' interest in reading is still lacking. Second, students have difficulty understanding a reading because their reading skills are still lacking. Third, students tend to be lazy to read because it is long and boring. Fourth, the learning techniques used by teachers tend to be boring so that students are less interested in reading longer. Fifth, students do not have the desire to improve their reading skills further, for that, learning models and techniques are needed that can support the student learning process and improve students' reading skills, one alternative is the application of PBL assisted by mind mapping techniques. This research is included in the type of quantitative experimental research using a one-group pretest-posttest design. The subjects in this study were 32 students of class VII MTsN 1 Kota Padang. The instrument used in this study was an objective test to measure news text reading skills before and after the application of the Problem Based Learning model assisted by mind mapping techniques. The data processing results indicate that the implementation of the PBL model with the aid of mind mapping techniques was effective in improving students' reading skills, as indicated by the average pretest score of 66.66, which increased to 78.59 in the posttest. This increase indicates an improvement in students' reading skills after being treated with Problem-Based Learning by the mind mapping technique. Keywords: Problem-Based Learning, reading skills, news text]]>
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