scholarly journals Mind Mapping in Teaching Writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Mukmin Mukmin ◽  
Handrini Afriyanti

The objective of this research is to know whether the students’ ability in writing descriptive text using mind mapping in Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 1 Banggai can improve or not and to know how mind mapping improve the students’ ability of writing. This research was quasi experimental research by using non-equivalent design. The population of this research were all of the tenth grade students’ in Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 1 Banggai. The sample were X science 1 and X science 2 and consist of 35 and 34 students. The instrument of this research was written test. The kinds of test were pre-test and post-test. The mean of pre-test score in experimental class is 41 and the mean of post-test in experimental class is 83. The mean of pre-test score in controlled class is 37.35 and the mean of post-test in controlled class is 47.65. From the calculation of tcounted was higher than ttable, the result of tcounted is 18.80 meanwhile ttable in the degree of significance 0.05 is 1.66792. If the tcounted> ttable, it means that Ha is accepted. It shows that the comparison of tcounted and ttable is 18.80 > 1.66792. In the other words the alternative hypothesis is proven. It assumed that mind mapping technique can improve the students’ ability of writing descriptive text.Keywords: Writing Ability; Descriptive Text; Mind Mapping.

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-120
Author(s):  
Kamelia Kamelia ◽  
Hiqma Nur Agustina ◽  
Imam Sudarmaji

The objective of this study is to find the use of mind mapping on improving students’ writing ability, especially for biographical recount text at the tenthgrade students of SMAN 7 Kota Tangerang in the academic year of 2018/2019.The sample of this study were 35 students. This study used quantitative method with pre – experimental design by using one group pre –test and post – test. The result of the research shows that there is a significant difference in student’s writing ability between tenth grade students of SMAN 7 Kota Tangerang before and after taught using the mind mapping technique. It can be seen in the result of the study, the average pre – test score of experiment class students is 68.26 and the average post – test score of experiment class students is 85.40. It means that there is a significant difference in students’ writing ability between tenth grade students of SMAN 7 Kota Tangerang before and after taught using the mind mapping technique. The research hypothesis is proven that using mind mapping technique in teaching writing especially in recount text makes the students’ writing score higher.


Author(s):  
Edi Firman ◽  
Fathurrahman Imran

This research was intended to analyze the effect of mind mapping towards students writing skill at the second semester students of FPBS IKIP Mataram in academic year 2015/2016. This study was quasi experimental research, where the sample was cluster randomly selected with the total number of sample was 65 students which were divided into 2 classes; 29 students were in the control group and there were 36 students belong to experimental group. In order to collect the research data, the writer used writing test to comprehend the students’ ability in managing text based on mind mapping concept. After the data was obtained, then it was analyzed by applying descriptive statistical analysis and inferential analysis. Regarding to the data analysis it was found that the students’ ability before treatment was 69.72 in the significant level 95%. On post-test data analysis, the students mean writing ability increased into 77.22. The inferential analysis or hypothesis testing also proved that the t-test was higher than t-table in the significant level 95% (α =0.05) and degree of freedom 63 (4.158 > 2.000) with ρ value (sig.) 0.00 < 0.05. It was clearly claimed that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) which stated that mind-mapping was effective towards students writing at second semester students of FPBS IKIP Mataram in academic year 2015/2016 was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) that said main-mapping is not effective toward students writing at second semester students of FPBS IKIP Mataram in academic year 2015/2016 was rejected. Those data evidently proved that mind mapping was effective towards students writing especially at second semester students of FPBS IKIP Mataram in academic year 2015/2016.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilham ◽  
Muhammad Fauzi Bafadal

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyoman Yuningsih ◽  
Novarita Novarita

The purposes of this study was to find out and analyze empirically the effects of cooperative script strategy in enhancing the students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text to the eleventh grade students of SMK N 3 OKU who were taught by using cooperative strategy. The study used experimental design with one group pre-test and post-test. The population of the study were 368 students, there were 12 classes with the 35 sample students, the sample took by using cluster random sampling technique. The data collection method used written test in pre-test and post-test. To analyze the test the researcher used t-test in SPSS 21. First, the writers gave pre-test to the students. The second, the writers taught writing by using cooperative script strategy and the third, they gave post-test to the students to know effectiveness of the strategy which was used. The mean of the pre-test was good (65,20). Meanwhile, the mean of post-test was very good (85,31). It could be seen from the result analysis using paired sample t test that output was 0.000 lower than 0,05. From the score, it can be concluded that null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Based on the result finding from this study, the cooperative script strategy was significantly effective to teach writing an analytical exposition text and the writers recommends the teacher use cooperative script strategy in teaching process and also for the students to apply cooperative script strategy to help the students to conveying their idea and improving their writing ability.


Author(s):  
Albert Efendi Pohan

The objective of this study is to find out whether Mind Mapping is effective or not in improving students’ ability in writing tourism brochures at SMA 20 Batam. This study is limited on writing tourism brochure for tenth grade students at SMA Negeri 20 Batam in Academic year 2017/2018. The study was designed by the writer by using true experimental design (pre-test and post-test control group). The population of the study were tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 20 Batam academic year 2017/2018. There were eight classes of tenth grade students with the total number 300 students. The samples of this study were two classes which consist of 30 students in experiment class and 30 students in control class. The instrument of this study was written test. The data analysis was used Independent Samples Test on IBM SPSS statistics 20 to perform T-test. The result showed that the Sig.(2-tailed) of students’ pre-test and post-test in experimental was 0.401 and standard significance level was 0.05. By comparing the Sig.(2-tailed) and standard  significance level, it was known that Sig.(2-tailed) was bigger than standard significance level (0.401 > 0.05). It means there was no significant difference in writing tourism brochure before and after taught by using Mind Mapping in experimental class. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was rejected and the null hypothesis (Ho) was accepted. The conclusion of Mind Mapping was not given significant effect in improving students’ ability in writing tourism brochure.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 306
Author(s):  
Dina Lisnawati ◽  
Diana Elvirasari ◽  
Iman Santoso

The purpose of this research was to find out the improvement of students’ writing abilityin writing narrativetext through think talk write method.The design of this research is point out in the experimental class design. This research will compare the think talk write method and ordinary teaching model. The students’ would learn how to write narrative text. The population of this research was the tenth grade of SMKPGRI 3 cimahi. Therefore, the advantages of this research to invented the new teaching model to the students’, it was good for students’ development in teaching and learning English with a new model of teaching. This study uses quasi experimental design, Data from this  study collected  through pre-test and post-test, in order to find out some of the results that have increased or decreased, The results show an experimental class with  the TTW (Think Talk Write) method. The pre-test results were supported by highest score and the lowest with the highest, pre-test score of 85 while the lowest score was 52, and the post-test  score was 52 and the  post-test score  with the highest score of 93, and the lowest 70. With the pre-test and post-test researchers could compare the assessment


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-428
Author(s):  
Rafki Okta Arianto

This study aimed to find out whether there is any effect of peer feedback through instagram on student’s writing recount text at the tenth grade students of SMA 4 Rejang Lebong. Quasi-experimental design, since two classes are taken as the sample of the study with 36 students X IPA 1 and 34 students X IPA 3. Which class experimental class and a controlled class. The experimental class is taught by doing peer feedback through instagram while the controlled class do not. Moreover, this research is conducted through the following procedures; pretest, treatments, and post-test. The data analyzed is gained through writing test. There was significant different between the students who taught by peer feedback through instagram and those who were taught by conventional teaching. It can be seen from the post-test result. The mean score in experimen class was 75,67 and the mean score in control class was 67,38. From the result of t tesr was obtained 3,03 while t table was 1,67. It was proved that t test obtained was higher than t table (3,03>1,67) which the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the hypothesis (H1) is accepted. Finally, it can be concluded that peer feedback through instagram is effective toward students’ writing ability in Recount text.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
SRY DEWI

The research attempts to investigate the result of students’ writing ability through the use of Mind Mapping Technique. It also describes the implementation of mind mapping technique in teaching writing, describes the students’ response and describes the students’ improvement. The subjects were The First Graders of STIKES Muhammadiyah Kendal in the Academic Year of 2018/2019. The type of this research is a classroom action research. In this research there are two cycles, and every cycle consisted of three meetings, and the end of each meeting the researcher conducts the post test to measure the improvement of the students’ writing ability. The data are collected by using observation lists, interview, field notes, documentation, and writing test. In analyzing data the researcher describes the mean of the students based on their score to know the students’ improvement in every cycle. There are two techniques to analyze the data. They are qualitative and quantitative method. To enhance the trustworthiness of the data and to reduce the subjectivity in analyzing the data, the researcher uses triangulation method. The result of this research is mind mapping is an appropriate technique to be used in improving the students’ writing ability.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Maharida Maharida

This research aimed to find out the improvement of the students’ pronunciation ability by using Substitution Drill that focused on English Consonants which consisted of dental and palato alveolar consonants and English Vowel which consisted mid-front,mid-central and mid-back vowel. The researcher applied Pre-Experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design and collected the data by giving pre-test and post-test. The sample of the research was class X IPA of SMA Negeri 1 Galesong Selatan which consisted of 33 students. The sample was taken by using the purposive technique. The research variables were teaching pronunciation by using Substitution Drill as an independent variable and dependent variable were English Consonants and English Vowel. The result of the research showed that the tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Galesong Selatan had fair score in the pre-test. After treatment, their pronunciation ability significant improved. The result of the research was the mean score obtained by the students through pre-test was 5.77 which was classified as fair classification and the mean score of the students on the post-test was 7.32 which was classified as good classification and the value of t-test was greater than t-table (16.48 > 2.037). It indicated that the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It was concluded that the use of Substitution Drill was effective to improve the students’ pronunciation ability.Keywords: improvement, pronunciation, substitution drill, dental, palato alveolar


IdeBahasa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Ance Jusmaya

The purpose of this study is to look for a significant influence on the application of using  Wattpad  as learning activities on students' ability to write descriptive texts. The main consideration is because an educator in this case should  used interesting instructional media, particularly to teach writing so that the potential of students can be developed optimally. Meanwhile the development of writing of English Department Students of Putera Batam University is still relatively low in quality. Wattpad is an applications which provides the students  an opportunity to write, promote and help their writing  reach acroos  the world. The design of the research was quasi-experimental research that want to find out the effect of  using Wattpad towards students  writing ability. To know students’ writing ability, this research uses writing test as Instrument. There are three pre tests and post tests. The pre-test were used to see students writing ability before having treatment and posttest are used to see the differences on students  writing ability after giving treatments. The subjects were the students of English Department of Putera Batam University who took writing class. The data found that  using Wattpad has a significant effect on student’s writing ability. This conclusion can be seen based on the analysis that has been done where the obtained Z score was smaller than critical value, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Hi) was accepted. So, based on the results , it was concluded that there was statistically diffrence between the pre-test and post-test score at the 0.05 levels. It means that teaching writing  by using wattpad gives significant effect on students’ writing ability


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