Repelitawati, Retno (2011) Implementing mind mapping strategy to improve the writing ability of the seventh graders of Public Junior High School 4 Kediri / Retno Repelitawati. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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Thesis. Graduate Program in English Language Teaching State University of Malang. Advisor (I) Dr. Johannes Ananto Prayogo M.Pd. M.Ed. (II) Dr. Suharmanto M.Pd. Key words Writing ability mind mapping strategy This study is aimed at implementing mind mapping strategy to improve the writing ability of the seventh graders of Public Junior High School 4 kediri. Based on the finding of the preliminary study the teaching writing in Public Junior High School 4 Kediri has not facilitated students to be skilled in writing yet. The students have problems in (1) how to start writing (2) how to generate ideas (3) how to organize ideas logically (4) how to make grammatical sentences. Therefore the researcher is greatly motivated to overcome the problem by implementing mind mapping strategy to improve the writing ability of the seventh graders of Public Junior High School 4 Kediri. Mind mapping Strategy is chosen to solve the problems in Public Junior High School 4 Kediri since it can guided the students to generate ideas to organize ideas and to make grammatical sentences. The research problem is how can mind mapping strategy improve the writing ability of the seventh graders of Public Junior High School 4 Kediri . On the basis of the research problem this research is intended to use mind mapping strategy to improve the students ability in writing especially in descriptive text. The researcher employed the design of collaborative classroom action research in which the researcher was assisted by collaborative teacher (a colleague) conducts the study. The research is conducted in VII-H class that consisted of twenty-nine students in which all of the students were taken as the subject of the research. The procedure of the research consisted of four stages planning implementation observation and reflection. This study consists of two cycles. Each of them consists of 4 meeting for teaching learning process. To collect the data the researcher used some instrument namely observation checklist field notes and students test. The finding of the research shows that the use of mind mapping strategy in teaching writing can improve the writing ability of the seventh graders of Public Junior High School 4 Kediri and the finding of the study shows that the appropriate steps in implementing mind mapping strategy consists the following procedures (1) leading students to the topic by giving some question (2) connecting the topic with the students background knowledge (3) introducing the topic and explaining the instructional objectives (4) showing a picture related to the topic by sticking it on the whiteboard (5) asking students to observe the picture (6) asking students to participate in generating their ideas through mind mapping as a model on the whiteboard (7) distributing the example of descriptive paragraphs (8) asking students to sit in group of five (9) distributing other different animal/ person picture large paper (A4) (10) informing the students about the activities they should do in their groups (11) asking students to starts the map from the center of paper and write a title based on the picture (12) asking students to start writing their first draft in group (13) guiding students to revise their writing in term of content and organize (14) guiding students to edit their writing in term of grammar and vocabulary (15) asking students to write their final draft and (16) asking students to write paragraph individually. The finding also indicates that mind mapping strategy in teaching writing can improve the writing ability of the seventh graders of Public Junior High School 4 Kediri. The improvement can be seen from the increase of the students writing score which reached the target score that in Cycle 1 48% (14 students of class) could reach 8805 75. It has not fulfilled the criterion of success yet. In Cycle 2 the students who got the score 8805 75 were 82 % (24 students of class) for high achiever and 18% (5 students of class) got the score 8805 65 for low achiever. It fulfilled the criterion of success in term of the score improvement. Beside mind mapping strategy was successful in enhancing the students to be active in the class. Examining the result the study supports the claim that mind mapping enables the learners to solve the problems of ideas and organization in writing and this study may also be in line with the idea that in mind mapping the connection between one idea to another one is presented so clearly that it describe a clear picture of the idea development of an essay. This study also suggest that an effective way of generating ideas mind mapping should be implemented as a pre-writing activity in which the students are involved in gathering the ideas for the target topic. Providing more practices for applying mind mapping in a real writing situation is also advisable. By so doing the learners are equipped with the skill of writing as a means of self-expression which might be useful for their occupational or academic purpose in the future. Based on the effectiveness of the implementation of mind mapping strategy in teaching writing it is suggested that the English teachers apply mind mapping strategy especially in teaching writing. To the future researchers particularly those who are interested in applying mind mapping strategy in their classroom research it is suggested that they do follow up research concerning the use of mind mapping strategy and use the results of this present study as a reference. It can be done to teach other different genre in various level of education from junior high school to senior high school.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2011 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2011 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58552 |
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