The Effect of Mind Mapping Technique in Improving Students’ Writing Report Text
This study aims to know whether the use of mind mapping technique in teaching report text effective to improve students’ writing ability at the fifth semester student of English Department FKIP UM Mataram in academic year 2015/2016. This study adopts an experimental research which employed a quasi experimental non-equivalent control group design. The sample in this study is two classes of fifth semester of English Department FKIP UM Mataram. This study uses test as an instrument to collect the data, and the data is collected by giving a pretest and a post-test to both experimental and control groups. To analyze the data, the writer uses t-test statistical formula fo find the significance of mind mapping in teaching writing report text. Overall, it was proven that the data analysis showed the significance improvement of students’ writing ability after the mind mapping technique was applied as a treatment for experimental group, whereas for the control group which given conventional method did not show significance improvement.