| dc.description.abstract | This classroom action research was intended to improve the eighth grade
students‟ writing achievement by using Mind Mapping technique at SMPN 2
Ambulu. Based on the preliminary study, it was found that VIII B grade students
had problem in writing skill. It happened because the teacher taught writing by
lecturing the students and directly asked the students to start their writing. It could
be shown by looking at students who take a long time to write a paragraph
because students had trouble in organizing ideas into a good paragraph. However,
this technique did not seem to be effective to be implemented during writing
activity. It made it difficult for the students to start their writing because they did
not know how to organize their ideas and develop their writing into coherent text.
It was proved by looking at their mean score of writing (65) which was the lowest
among the other tenth grade classes. It also did not achieve the minimum of
standard score (75) for the English subject. Hence, the researcher conducted this
research in order to overcome the problems through Mind Mapping Technique as
a prewriting technique for teaching writing.
The objectives of this research were: (1) to enhance the students‟
descriptive writing achievement and (2) to know the students participation in the
teaching and learning process of writing through Mind Mapping Technique. In
conducting this research, the researcher involved the English teacher as the
collaborator. The researcher did the teaching process, while the English teacher as
the observer. The data collection methods in this research were the students‟
writing test result and observation. The study was done in two cycles to check the
consistency of the research result. Each cycle covered two meetings of the action
implementation and one meeting for administering the test. Besides, the
observational checklist consisted of 5 indicators. The students were categorized as
active students if at least 3 indicators were fulfilled. The observation result in Cycle 1 showed that there was 78% students
were actively involved during the teaching and learning process. Besides, the
percentage of the students who achieved the minimum of standard score (75)
significantly increased into 28% from the pre-Cycle 53% to Cycle 1 81%.In other
words, Cycle 1 fulfilled the criteria of success because 75% of students achieved
the research criteria. Then, the action was still continued to Cycle 2 to check the
consistency of the students‟ writing achievement and their participation. The
result of Cycle 2 showed much better result. It was reported that 84% of the
students participated actively during the learning process. Furthermore, the
increasing also happened to the students‟ writing achievement test that showed
86% of the students passed the standard minimum score.
Based on the result above, it can be concluded that the action in Cycle 2
had achieved the criteria of success of the research. After applying Mind Mapping
technique in the prewriting activities, the students‟ could generate and organize
their ideas, make a well-organized writing. The result of Cycle 1 to Cycle 2
showed an improvement as well as achieved the criteria of success. Finally, it can
be summarized that the implementation of Mind Mapping technique could
improve the VIII B grade students‟ writing achievement. | en_US |
