IMPROVING WRITING ABILITY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 NGAGLIK THROUGH THE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE

IMPROVING WRITING ABILITY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 NGAGLIK THROUGH THE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE By Fatih Thuli’ Siraja 07202244092 Abstract This study is an action research in nature that is aimed to improve the writing ability of grade VIID students of SMPN 3 Ngaglik through the use of mind mapping technique. It is expected that the mind mapping can be used to improve the students’ writing ability in SMPN 3 Ngaglik, especially at grade VIID. This research consisted of two cycles. In doing the research, the researcher involved 36 students of grade VIID, one English teacher as the collaborator and the researcher himself. The data were obtained from the observation during the implementation of the actions, interviews with the students of grade VIID, discussion with the collaborator and students’ writing tasks. The data were in the form of interview transcripts, and students’ tasks. The validity of the data was obtained by applying democratic validity, outcome validity, process validity, and dialogic validity.\ud The result of this study shows that the use of mind mapping technique is believed to be effective to improve students’ writing ability. Students’ writing problems can be reduced by applying the mind mapping technique. Using mind mapping technique facilitates the students to be able to find ideas related to the topic they want. Then they can make the ideas into good sentences in the form of simple present tense. The last they can arrange the sentences into good descriptive paragraph. It provides feedbacks that facilitate them in the writing aspects, namely content, organization, language use, vocabulary and mechanics. In reference to the students’ writing scores, the students’ ability in five aspects of writing improved after the mind mapping technique was applied. Students’ gain score from Task 1 to Task 3 in the content aspect is 7.93, in the mechanics aspect is 1.59, in the language use aspect is 6.04, in vocabulary aspect is 4.03, and in the organization aspect is 5.04