INCREASING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE FROM NARRATIVE TEXT

The objectives of this research are (1) to find out whether or not mind mapping technique can be used to increase students’ reading comprehension, and (2) to investigate the students’ respond after being thought through mind mapping technique. This research was conducted at the first grade students of SMAN 2 Kota Metro numbering of 30 students. This is a quantitative study which had intact group pre-test post-test design. The results show that the students’ mean scores in the pre-test was 58.06 and post-test was 70.46. It can be seen that the students’ mean score of post-test was increased about 12.4 point after being thought through mind mapping technique. The highest score of the pre-test was 86 and the highest score of post-test was increased to 90, in which the highest score gain was 16. The lowest score of the pre-test was 43 and the lowest score of the post-test was 50, in which the lowest score gain was increased to 7. The effectiveness could be seen from the computation which showed that t-value was 7.050 was higher than t-table (2.045). The results show that mind mapping technique was effective to increase the students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. The effectiveness was also supported by the students’ respond from the questionnaire’ result. From questionnaire’ result, 96.6% students gave positive respond toward mind mapping and 3.4% gave negative respond. Keywords: mind mapping, narrative text, reading comprehension, questionnaire