Improving The Students’ Writing Ability Through Mind Mapping Method

Abstract

Since writing ability is the interaction between thought and language and the process of writing undoubtedly involves brain. It is possible to apply the mind mapping-method to improve the writing ability, by using mind-mapping method, students can employ the left side of brain to do mapping by writing key ideas, and building outward with a series of interconnecting lines and other related ideas, and the right side of the brain to highlight broad cohesive concept with colors. Referring to that the objective of the research was to find out whether or not the use of mind mapping can improve the students’ writing ability. The researcher applied a pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and one group post-test design. The subject of the research was consisted 30 students of X7. The data were collected through writing test (pre-test and post-test). To find out the effectiveness of mind mapping method in improving writing ability, the researcher applied t-test analysis. The research result indicated that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. The mean score of pre - test was lower than the mean score of post - test and the value of t-test was greater than the t-table. It is concluded that using mind mapping method is effective in improving the students’ writing ability. The result of this research is expected to be useful information for students in order that to motivate them to write by using mind mapping method. Therefore, they can develop their ability in writing, and hoped to be fruitful information for teachers in improving the quality of the way their teach, especially in teaching the writing subject. and hopefully bring meaningful contribution to the people who concern about writing, where it will be the input in the term of method of generating ideas, and build up their ideas into piece of writing, So that, they can develop their ability in writing.