The effect of mind mapping technique toward reading comprehension mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMK Negeri 2 Kotanopan

Aida, Juni (2017) The effect of mind mapping technique toward reading comprehension mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMK Negeri 2 Kotanopan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the effect mind mapping technique toward reading comprehension mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMK negeri 2 Kotanopan. The problems of this research were: 1)Most of the students still get low grade with 60 grades meanwhile the standard of English competency in the school 70, 2) Most of students did not understand the text that the students read. They just read the text without comprehending the text. Beside the students’ problem, teacher’s technique also became a problem in learning English. The teacher still used the conventional technique and did not had variation in teaching reading. The purpose of this research was to examine the significant effect of using mind mapping toward reading comprehension mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMK negeri 2 Kotanopan. The method was used in this research was experimental research. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were XI TO-1 as the experimental class that consisted of 25 students and XI TO-2 as the control class that consisted of 25 students. It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data was derived from pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of experimental class after using mind mapping technique was higher than control class. Mean score of experimental class before using mind mapping technique was 55.64 and mean score of experimental class after using mind mapping technique was 73.84. Besides, the score of tcount was higher than ttable (4.14 > 2.021). It meant that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of mind mapping technique toward reading comprehension mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMK Negeri 2 Kotanopan.

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