The Speaking Ability in Descriptive Text of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 1 Gebog in the Axademic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Mind Mapping with Picture.

Wijiastuti, Juwita. 2013 . The Speaking Ability in Descriptive Text of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 1 Gebog in the Axademic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Mind Mapping with Picture. Skripsi: English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University. Advisor : (1) Mutohhar,S.Pd, M.Pd, (2) Dra. Sri Endang Kusmaryati, M.Pd Keywords: Speaking ability, Mind Mapping, Picture Speaking English is very important for students because they can express themselves and being brave to state their own opinions. Good ability in speaking can measure a success of language learning. Speaking ability must be taught and applied in the class. In fact, in daily life someone does more in speaking that writing. Many English teachers who have spent much time in the class on reading and writing and almost forget the speaking ability. In teaching speaking, the teacher must choose a technique which is suitable on the student’s condition. When the teacher asks the students to speak about something happened on them, most of them keep silent. There are some problems happened in speaking teaching. First, the students are less in vocabulary. Second, the students are afraid of making mistakes. The third problem is the use of monotonous technique. One technique which can be used in speaking teaching is Mind mapping because it can attract the student’s interest in studying and improving the speaking students ability. The objective of the research is to find out the speaking ability of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog before and after being taught by using mind mapping with picture in academic year 2012/2013 and whether there is a significant difference between the speaking ability of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog before and after being taught by using mind mapping with picture in academic year 2012/2013. In the research, the researcher used quasi-experimental research as a design of the research. The data were collected by recording the oral test of pre-test and post-test. Then, the researcher identified and analyzed based on statistic calculation for getting good result accurately, completely and systematically. The population of the research is the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog in academic year 2012/2013 and takes one class (X 5) as a sample that consits of 30 students. The result of the research shows that the speaking ability of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog before being taught by using mind mapping with picture in academic year 2012/2013 is found the highest score is 76, and the lowest score is 48. From the calculation of the data, the mean is 60 and the standard deviation is 6.65. So, the result is sufficient. Meanwhile, the oral test of speaking ability of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog after being taught by using mind mapping in academic year 2012/2013 is found the highest score is 88, and the lowest score is 56. From the calculation of the data, the mean is 76.2 and the standard deviation is 4.5. It is categorized as good. For analyzing the data, the researcher used t-test for dependent sample. The result of t-observation (t0) is 11.3. Compared by t-table (tt) on the degree of freedom 29 in level of significance 2.05, it means that the result of t-observation (t0) is higher than t-table (tt) and it shows there is significant different between the speaking ability of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog in academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using mind mapping. Based on the research result above, the researcher concludes that Mind mapping is appropriate in improving the speaking ability of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog in academic year 2012/2013. For the English teacher and the other researcher, Mind mapping can be applied as a alternative technique in teaching and learning process