THE INFLUENCE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE TOWARD STUDENTS WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SEVENTH GRADE SMPN 5 KOTA SERANG

Rosmania Rima, M.Pd. and Dhafid Wahyu Utomo, M.A. as her first and second advisors

This research explores the influence of using mind mapping technique toward students writing descriptive text at the seventh grade of SMPN 5 Kota Serang. The sample of this research consisted of 30 students from class VII D as an experimental group and 30 students from class VII E as a control group. This research used quantitative method which the data was served by numerical and tested by statistical formula or t-test. The research design of this study is quasi experimental design. It means that the researcher compares the essay which was written by experimental class students who was taught descriptive text using mind mapping with the controlled class students who was taught descriptive text using scientific approach. The result of this research shows that the use of mind mapping gives influence toward students writing descriptive text. It is proven by the improvement of students mean score. The mean score of pre-test in experimental and control classes were 51.8 and 47.7, while the mean score of post-test in experimental and control classes were 73.9 and 68.8. Eventually, the experimental class shows better improvement.Furthermore, the result of t-test (tcount) is 7.27. Compared to the value of tcount with the degree of significance 5% (2.00), 7.27>2.00, it is proved that the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. In addition, the students in experimental class also enjoyed learning process with mind mappingtechnique. They followed the learning process well, which finally they got better achievement in writing descriptive text.

Keywords: Mind Mapping Technique, Writing, Descriptive Text

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