The effectiveness of using mind mapping technique on students� reading of narrative text: a quasi-experimental study at the second grade of MAN 19 Jakarta

The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence about the effectiveness of using mind mapping technique on students� reading of narrative text. This study was conducted since February 25 to June 4, 2014 at MAN 19 Jakarta, using 54 students from two classes as samples. The quasi experimental design was used with pretest and posttest as techniques to collect the data. The sample that was selected through purposive sampling was then separated into experimental class and control class. Both of the classes were differently treated. The experimental class was taught narrative text by using mind mapping technique while the control class was taught narrative text without using mind mapping technique. To test the hypothesis, T-test formula was used to calculate the data. The research findings of this study reached the conclusion that there was no significance difference of students� reading skill between the experimental class and the control class. This was based on the T-test result which showed that T-test < T-table (0.706 < 2.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that Ho was accepted and Ha was rejected