Khotimah, Chusnul (2020) Increasing Descriptive Writing Ability by Using Mind Mapping Technique Among The Eighth Graders of MTs N 1 Lampung Timur. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Technique is one way that is used by the teacher to apply a method in teaching and learning process in order to make the students understand about the materials. So, as a teacher should be able to help the students to comprehend the material by providing the appropriate technique in teaching and learning process. Therefore, to increase the studentsdescriptive writing ability, the researcher provided an efficient and effective technique, that is mind mappingtechnique. Mind mappingis used to express their ideas in written descriptive writing. This technique is expected be able to increase the studentsdescriptive writing ability. In fact, the teacher has not used yet the effective technique in writinglesson, it caused the students’ writing ability is low. This condition which is the researcher found at the eighthgradersstudents of MTs N 1 Batanghari.

In this case, the researcher conducted classroom action research (CAR). In this research, the researcher conducted the research in two cycles. Between one cycle with the other has relationship. They are including planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The subject of this research was 30at theeighthgradersstudents ofMTs N 1 Batanghari.In collecting data, the researcher used the test, observation and documentation. The tests consist of pre-test and post-test. The purpose of pre-test and post-test are to know how far the students’ descriptive writing ability before and after being given the treatment.

The result of pre-test and post-test show that there is increase from the pre-test and post-test. The average score of the post-test is higher than pre-test. The average score of pre-test is 18.61, then the average score of post-test I is 46.52, and the average score of post-test II is 76.74. From pre-test to the post-test cycle I, there is increase for about 27.91points, and from the post-test cycle I to the post-test cycle II, there is increase for about 30.22points.So,by using mind mapping technique can increase the studentslearning activity and the students descriptive writing ability.

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