U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 7, No 3 (2018): U-JET

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Haifa Puti Arlin (Lampung University)
Flora Flora (Unknown)
Ramlan Ginting (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Jun 2018

Abstract

Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah teknik mind mapping dapat meningkatkan secara signifikan dalam kemampuan menulis siswa khususnya teks deskripsi. Pendekatan penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 30 siswa tingkat satu SMA. Data diperoleh dari nilai pretest dan posttest dalam bentuk esai. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan teknik mind mapping meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks deskripsi. Hal ini menandakan bahwa teknik mind mapping dapat diterapkan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menulis siswa.  Abstract. This research aimed to find out whether the mind mapping technique significantly improved the students’ ability in writing descriptive texts. The approach of the research was quantitative. The subjects were 30 students of the first grade of SMA. The data were collected through both the pretest and the posttest, in a form of writing an essay. The result showed that the use of mind mapping technique improved the students’ ability in writing descriptive texts at the significant level 0.05. This indicates that mind mapping technique can help the students to improve their writing skill. This suggests that mind mapping technique help the students improve their ability in writing skills. 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 ...