Effectiveness of Using Mind Mapping towards Students’ Reading Comprehenstion of Narrative Text in the Eight Grade Students of SMPN 208 Jakarta in Academic Year of 2015/2016

murphree s, emily; dr. roslaini, m.hum; fidaniar tiarsiwi, m. pd.;

SYAHRI, ALFI. The Effectiveness of Using Mind Mapping towards Students’
Reading Comprehenstion of Narrative Text in the Eight Grade Students of SMPN
208 Jakarta in Academic Year of 2015/2016. Paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme
of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University
of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2016.
The objective of this research is to find out the empirical evidence of the
effectiveness of using mind mapping towards students‘ reading comprehension of
narrative text in the eight grade students of SMPN 208 Jakarta in Academic Year of
2015/2016. The writer used pre experimental research involving 30 students as the
sample. The writer collected the data from the research by using t-test formula.
The finding of the research showed that mind mapping was significantly effective in
teaching reading of narrative text to the eight grade students of SMPN 208 Jakarta in academic year of 2015-2016. The calculation of the data showed that to = 9.41 and tt = 1.70. Because to was higher than tt (to > tt), the null hypothesis was rejected. As the result, it proved that the using of Mind Mapping was effective towards students reading comprehension of narrative text in the eight grade students of SMPN 208 Jakarta in academic year of 2015/2016.