Improving students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using mind mapping technique at grade X SMA N 1 Angkola Selatan

This research was about the Improving Students' ability in Writing Descriptive Text By Using Mind Mapping Technique at Grade X SMA N 1 Angkola Selatan. Writing is a part of english learning to improve good skills writing, so many kinds of text in English to make a writing, researcher choosed descriptive text.Students’ probloems is students’ can’t to develop a idea to writed, student not intereted to write englih language and teacher language didn’t have teaching technique. The purposed of research to decribe students’ achievement in writing students’ ability by used mind mapping technique at class X IPA 1 SMA N 1 Angkoa Selatan. The method is Classroom Action Reseach, by implementing the Kemmis design which consisted four steps. Those were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.Moreover, to solve the writing problems the researcher applied Mind Mapping Technique.The participant of this research was one class of X-IPA 1 consisted of 30 students and also there was collaboration with an English teacher. Meanwhile, the data was derived among from writing tests, observation sheet, and also interview. Based on the research result, showed that the students' writing ability mean score of the students' writing ability in the first cycle was 62.97 and 73.16 Then, the second cycle was 80.15 and 85.83. Therefore, the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. In the first cycle categorized into enough category and the second cycle categorized into very good category. The data from observation sheet indicated the students got improvement. It indicated that the aplication of mind mapping technique improved students' writing ability. Basedon the hypotesis of the reseaarch mind mapping technique could improv students' writing ability at SMA N 1 Angkola Selatan. So, the researcher could concluded that hypothesis was accepted