THE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (An Action Research at the Eight Grade Students of SMP Negeri 3 Purwokerto in Academic Year 2014/2015)

WIJAYANTI, LINDA (2015) THE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (An Action Research at the Eight Grade Students of SMP Negeri 3 Purwokerto in Academic Year 2014/2015). Bachelor thesis, UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH PURWOKERTO.

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Abstract

This research was aimed at knowing whether mind mapping could improve students‟ reading comprehension of descriptive text. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 3 Purwokerto in Academic Year 2014/2015. The method of this research was classroom action research (CAR). The subject of this research was the students of 8F of SMP Negeri 3 Purwokerto which consisting of 35 students. The treatment was carried out in two cycles of four actions. Every cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. To collect data the writer used test, observation, questionnaire and interview. The result of the research showed that mind mapping technique can improve the students‟ reading comprehension of descriptive text. The pre-test score increased from 67.14 to 74.26 in post-test I, then 81.51 in post-test II. The number of the students that reached the passing grade was increasing from 25.71% in pre-test, to 51.43 in post-test I, and 94.29% in post-test II. It had reached the criterion of action success which was more than 85% students in VIII-F could reach the passing grade of 75. The observation result showed that the mean of students activeness increased from 44.38% in cycle I to 81.54% in cycle II. The mean percentage of questionnaire was 96.98%. It showed that the students gave positive responses to the implementation of mind mapping technique. Based on the result of the research, it could be concluded that mind mapping could improve students‟ reading comprehension of descriptive text.

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