The integration of mind mapping strategy on students’ essay writing

This study investigates the integration of mind mapping strategy in students' essay writing at Universities Kristen Indonesia. The study method used was a quantitative method with a quasi-experimental design. The population was the third-semester and fifth-semester students, consisting of two classes. Both classes consist of forty-four students, and the two classes with forty-four students were chosen to be the sample of this study using the purposive sampling technique. The instrument of this research is a writing test. The test was administered as a pre-test and post-test to the experimental and control group. T-tests at the 0.5 level and covariance analysis are used to analyze the data. The result is that mind maps are one of the learning alternatives that teachers can use in teaching essay lessons. Students' performance in the experimental group increased compared to those in the control group by using mind maps and critical teaching material for the students. Then it is suggested that the mind mapping could be used by lecturers as an alternative to improve the students' ability to write the essay