Caria, Intan (2011) The Implementation of Conсерт Мapping to Increase the Students' Ability In Writing a Descriptive Text at The Eleventh Grade of Senior High School Teladan One Metro in The Academic Year of 2010/2011. Undergraduate thesis, Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Jurai Siwo Lampung.

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Abstract

Writing was one of the four language skill that plays an important role in the context of teaching English as a foreign language. Writing had been assumed as the most difficult basic skill in language instruction. Students in Senior High School Teladan One Metro felt this phenomenon too, especially in writing a descriptive text. More than half of students still had poor ability in writing a descriptive text. The major problem that the students faced was how to generate idea, make the writing relevant to the topic, and choose the words. For this reason, a good technique to cope with the phenomenon was needed. One of the most reasonable technique was concept mapping. The research problem of this study is, "Can concept mapping increase students' ability in writing a descriptive text at the eleventh grade of Senior High School Teladan one Metro?" In this study, the research design used is Quantitative research in the form of true experimental design with applying pre-test and posttest control group design. The population of study was students from the eleventh grade in Senior High School Teladan One Metro in The Academic Year of 2010/2011. The amounts of sample of study was 41 students. The data were analyzed by using ttest for examining the differences between the experimental class (using concept mapping) and the control class (class without using concept mapping). From all of data analysis, it can be seen that tobserved is higher than ttableTherefore it can be inferred that Hi is accepted. It means that there is a positive and significant difference between experimental and control class at the eleventh grade of Senior High School Teladan One Metro in the academic year of 2010/2011. The findings of the study indicate that concept mapping is successful in increasing students' writing ability. The improvement can be seen from the increase of the students' mean scores and the students' involvement in writing activities. In conclusion, the implementation of concept mapping in prewriting stage is suitable to help the students improving their writing ability, especially in writing a descriptive text.

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