The Use of Mind Mapping Technique to Improve Writing Achievement of Eleventh Graders at MA Darul Lughah Wal Karomah.

Imroatin Nabila, - (2021) The Use of Mind Mapping Technique to Improve Writing Achievement of Eleventh Graders at MA Darul Lughah Wal Karomah. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training English Education Program.

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Imroatin Nabila, 2021: The Use of Mind Mapping Technique to Improve Writing Achievement of Eleventh Graders at MA Darul Lughah Wal Karomah. Writing is a way to express ideas in a written form using letters, words, art or media. Writing skills are an important part of communication. Good writing allows people to communicate message with clarity and easy. In the preliminary study, the researcher found that students at eleven grade of MA Darul Lughah Wal Karomah had problems in writing. The students’ problems in writing were they still lacked of vocabulary, difficult to start writing, and translating into English. Besides, the students were not really excited because they thought that writing was difficult. Based on the data from English teacher, there were only 20% of students reached the passing grades and 80% of students did not achieve passing grades. It means that the students need something new in teaching and learning process. Mind mapping is a technique that represented the ideas. Mind mapping could help the students in guiding them before they start writing. This technique would guide the students to develop their ideas by writing the vocabularies as keywords in the mind mapping. Therefore, the researcher and English teacher collaboratively used Mind Mapping technique to improve the students’ writing achievement. The research question in this research was, “How could Mind Mapping technique improve students’ narrative text writing at eleventh grade of MA Darul Lughah Wal Karomah?”. The objective of research was to describe how mind mapping technique could improve the students’ narrative text writing at eleventh grade of MA Darul Lughah Wal Karomah. This research is Classroom Action Research (CAR). The classroom action research design of this research was a collaborative classroom action research. The participants of this research were twenty five students of eleventh graders of MA Darul Lughah Wal Karomah. This research was conducted in one cycle with four meetings. In this cycle, there were some steps that include planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data of this research was completed by using writing test, interview, observation and document review. After using mind mapping technique, students’ writing achievement was improved. The result of the students’ writing test score showed that the mean score was 74,6. There were 18 students’ or 72% of the total students who got score above passing grade meanwhile 7 students’ were under the criterion. This research could be said as successful research if the research was reached the criteria of success. the criteria of success in this research is the number of students who reach the minimum score (75) is equal to or higher than 60% of total students. It can be concluded that the result could achieve the criteria of success. The element of writing which got improvement since teaching and learning process was vocabulary, grammar (tenses), and mechanic. The researcher gave suggestion to the English teacher to implement mind mapping technique as an alternative in writing class to help the students’ improvement on their writing. The researcher also gave suggestion to the other researcher to conduct better research on other skill. Key words: mind mapping technique, students’ writing achievement.

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