THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MIND MAPPING IN TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE-TEXT WRITING TO THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF “DHARMA KARYA UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA” JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, PONDOK CABE ILIR

cici marsela; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd.; nita kaniadewi, m. pd.;

Nerisha Arviana. 1001065144. The Effectiveness of Mind Mapping in Teaching Descriptive-Text Writing to the First Grade Students of “DHARMA KARYA UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA” Junior High School, Pondok Cabe Ilir. A Paper. The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta, 2014.
The objective of this research was to find out whether mind mapping technique is effective in teaching descriptive-text writing to the first grade students of “Dharma Karya Universitas Terbuka” Junior High School, Pondok Cabe Ilir.
The writer used pre-experimental method with 20 samples from the population of 93 students of “Dharma Karya Universitas Terbuka” Junior High School, Pondok Cabe Ilir. This experiment was done in 17 days. The data was collected through writing a descriptive text and analyzed through t-test analysis.
The finding of this research shows that mind mapping has been significantly effective in improving students’ writing skill. The result th = 8.15 and to= 1.73. Because the th > to the null hypothesis was rejected. It gave a proof that mind mapping is effective in improving the students’ writing skill at the tenth grade students of “Dharma Karya Universitas Terbuka” Junior High School, Pondok Cabe Ilir.