The effect of mind mapping strategy on the writing descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 6 Padangsidimpuan

Panggabean, Wulan Sari (2019) The effect of mind mapping strategy on the writing descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 6 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focuses on the effect of Mind Mapping Strategy on the writing descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 6 Padangsidimpuan. The students’ problem in writing were: 1) the students were low in vocabulary mastery, 2) the students were lack of confidents in writing, 3) the students were less comprehension about grammar and 4) most of them did not know the easier strategy in writing. The purpose of this research was to examine whether there was significant effect of Mind Mapping Strategy on the writing descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 6 Padangsidimpuan. This research uses one group pre-test and post-test design. The instrument of this research is writing test (pre-test and post-test). The population of this research was 315 eighth grade students of SMP N 6 Padangsidimpuan. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. The sample were class VIII-1 (32 students) as experimental class and class VIII-2 (32 students) as control class. The data of this research were collected by using t-test formula. The result showed that the mean score of experimental class after using Mind Mapping Strategy was higher than control class. The Mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 45 and the mean score of control class in pre-test was 47.91. Meanwhile, the mean score of experimental class in post-test after using Mind Mapping Strategy was 71.17 and the mean score of control class in post-test without a treatment was 52.87. Moreover, from t-test, it was found that tcount (6.22) was higher than ttable (1.66980). Therefore, the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) of this research was accepted and the Null Hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It could be concluded that there was the effect of Mind Mapping Strategy on the writing descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 6 Padangsidimpuan.

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