The Effectiveness Of Mind Mapping Technique For Improving The Skills Of Writing Descriptive Texts Of The Seventh Grade Students In The First Semester 2019/2020 Academic Year In SMPN 19 Depok

erna herawati; dr. burhayani, m.pd; nurhandayani supraptiningsih, m.pd;

Rintan Puspita Rinaldi. 1501055094. The Effectiveness of Mind Mapping
Technique for Improving the Skills of Writing Descriptive Texts of the Seventh Grade
Students in the First Semester 2019/2020 Academic Year in SMPN 19 Depok. A paper:
The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2019.
This experimental study was aimed to find out the empirical evidence about the
effectiveness of using mind mapping technique to improve students’ writing ability
of descriptive text at seventh grade of SMPN 19 Depok. For collecting the data, the
writer distributed pre-test and post-test to thirty students of both control and
experiment class and implemented the treatment during six meetings. The post-test
results showed that the mean score of experiment class (84.58) was higher than
control class (76.94). The findings indicated that the (t observed) was 4.74 from df
(30) on degree of significance level the (t table) was 1.70. Because of to > tt, it means
that Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. It can be concluded that the use of mind
mapping technique is effective to improve students’ skill in writing descriptive text
at seventh grade of SMPN 19 Depok