Susanthi, Herlina Endang (2018) The Use Of Mind Mapping Technique To Improve Students’ Speaking Performance At The Eighth Grade Of State Junior High School 7 Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Speaking is one of the four skills that are very important to learned. Speaking as a productive aspect is influenced by some elements such as fluency, pronounciation, vocabulary, grammatical accuracy and interactional strategies. Speaking english is one of the skill that should be mastered by the students of State Junior High School 7 Metro. However, there are many students who have some difficulties in speaking performance. This situation results to the students‟ speaking score are still low. Based on the situation, to improve students‟ speaking performance, the researcher used Mind Mapping technique in learning process. Mind Mapping is one of technique that easy and effective to be applied in teaching and learning process in the class. This research aimed to know whether the use of Mind Mapping technique can improve students‟ performance in speaking in English learning.

The kind of this research is a classroom action research (CAR). The research is conducted in two cycles, and each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Object of this research was the students speaking performance. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation, test, and documentation. This research was conducted with Mrs. Yulia Budi S.,S.Pd as one of the English teacher of State Junior High School 7 Metro.

The result of this research showed that Mind Mapping technique had positive role in improving the students‟ speaking performance among eight graders of State Junior High School 7 Metro. It can be proved by the students‟ average score from pre-test to post-test. The average score in pre-test was 63,5 and in post-test was 67,6 became 76,11. It can be inferred that using Mind Mapping technique can improve speaking performance among the students.

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