Improving the Eleventh Grade Students’ Analytical Exposition Writing Achievement and Active Participation through Mind Mapping Technique at Madrasah Aliyah Darus Sholah Jember; Ika Wahyu Riyanti, 060210491281

Abstract

Writing is an important skill to communicate ideas, thoughts, concepts and feelings in written forms. It refers to production process to produce a piece of written work. Considering the acquisition of English as a foreign language, writing plays a very important role to help the students be able to understand and remember what they have just got about the new language. In fact, many students still experience difficulties in analytical exposition writing text. Based on the preliminary study with the English teacher of Madrasah Aliyah Darus Sholah Jember, it was known that the eleventh grade of IPS students still experienced difficulty in writing especially in text writing. It was indicated by the percentage of the students who got the score of at least 65 in the previous writing test given by the teacher, that was 62.5 %. Therefore, the researcher proposed Mind Mapping technique to overcome the students’ problem in writing. Some experts argue that mind mapping technique is an essential technique to develop ideas in the written forms. Chaffee (1999:13) claims that mind mapping is a powerful approach for writing to help students generate the ideas and begin organizing them into various relationships with the details in visual way. Gerson and Gerson (1993: 183-184) claim that mind mapping is more visual and free form. This technique develops the ideas so clear and detailed. Since it is started with the main topic, then provide some components and subpoints. The components are the statements that support the idea in the main topic. Then subpoints are the statements that support the components and the main topic indirectly. This technique was chosen as the alternative teaching techniques of writing lesson under the reason that this technique was useful to assist the students to write text well and it could be applied in the various genres of text. This technique was used to develop and generate the ideas into good analytical exposition writing. It is expected that by using mind mapping technique the students are able to write analytical exposition easily. This study employed a classroom action research design with the cycle model. This study aimed at improving the eleventh grade students’ analytical exposition writing achievement through mind mapping technique at Madrasah Aliyah Darus Sholah Jember to improve the eleventh students’ grade active participation in teaching learning process of writing through mind mapping technique at Madrasah Aliyah Darus Sholah Jember. The stages of this classroom action research covered a sequence of steps, namely the planning of the action, implementation of the action, class observation and evaluation and reflection of the action.