| dc.description.abstract | The result of the students’ descriptive text writing achievement test in Cycle 1
showed that the mean score of the students’ writing test was 77 in Cycle 1. There were
30 students (80.08%) who got scores 71 or more in this Cycle. The result indicated that
the students’ writing test in Cycle 1 achieved the target score. To know the consistency
of the result, Cycle 2 needed to be done. Meanwhile, the result of observation checklist
in Cycle 1 related to the students’ active participation was 20 active students (55.56%)
in the first meeting, and then it increased up to 30 active students (81.08%) in the
second meeting. Although it showed improvement, the target percentage of this research
did not achieve yet.
Furthermore, the result of descriptive text writing achievement test in Cycle 2
showed that the students could maintain the consistency of the writing achievement test
result in Cycle 1 and improve their writing achievement test. The mean score of the
students’ writing test was 79. There were 34 students (89.47%) who got scores 71 or
more in this Cycle. The students could put their words related to the picture into the
Mind Mapping appropriately and compose simple paragraphs using the words in the
Mind Mapping in writing descriptive text. Meanwhile, the result of observation
checklist in the first and second meeting showed that the percentage of the students’
active participation in Cycle 2 was higher than in Cycle 1. It increased from 68.32% of
the students in Cycle 1 to 86.84% of the students in Cycle 2 who participated actively
during the teaching learning process. The students were more active discussing the
material in pairs, answering the questions from the teacher and raising some questions
to the teacher because the researcher used aid Media like Mind Mapping application,
Laptop, and LCD Projector. Moreover, the researcher used loud voice that could hear in
the back row. Therefore, they looked so enthusiastic and paid much attention to the
teacher’s explanation during the teaching learning process.
From the writing test and the observation result in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2, it could
be concluded that the use of Mind Mapping technique was able to improve class VII D
students’ descriptive text writing achievement and active participation of SMP Negeri
11 Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year. | en_US |
