THE EFFECT OF USING MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE ON THE STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR ACHIEVEMENT

An understanding of how teachers are drawing on grammar to design teaching activities can be beneficial for the education field as to best practices. A new technique, mind map, is believed to be useful in teaching language. Therefore, the current research aimed at investigating the significant effect of using mind mapping on the students’ grammar achievement. The research design was quasi-experimental research, that was, Non-equivalent Groups Posttest Only Design, and the population was all of the seventh grade students of SMP 06 Diponegoro Wuluhan Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The data of this research were gained from the results of the grammar posttest conducted after the treatment was given. The treatment for the experimental group was teaching grammar by using mind mapping, while the control group was taught grammar by using conventional technique, memorization. The data obtained were analyzed by using SPSS 17 with the significant level of 5%. The result of this research revealed that mind mapping technique had a positively significant effect on the students’ grammar achievement. Keywords: mind mapping, grammar achievemen