THE INFLUENCE OF THE APPLICATION OF MIND MAPPING
STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN WRITING NARRATIVE
PARAGRAPH AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMP WAHIDIN
KOTA CIREBON
ANI YUNIARTI : The Influence Of the Application of Mind Mapping Strategy
On Students’ Competence in Writing Narrative Paragraph
at The Second Year Students of SMP Wahidin Kota Cirebon
The main duty of teacher is carrying out activities of learning. Teacher should
know the meaning of learning activity, teaching and learning strategy in order to
create an effective activity. One of learning object is English. There are four major
skills of language that the learners have to improve: speaking, reading, writing, and
listening. But actually writing skill is considered as the most difficult among them. In
the writing process, there are some obstacles inside. Teacher should select and decide
the appropriate strategies to overcome writing problem. One of them is mind
mapping. Mind map is represent one of the strategy of study by means of approach of
brain entirety. This strategy gives opportunity to student to raise original idea and to
trigger easy memory. In this way the student expected to please their learn and their
creative so that can improve mastery of the subject
The objectives of this study are to find out the data about the application of
mind mapping strategy at the Second Year of SMP Wahidin Kota Cirebon, to find out
the data about the students‟ competence in writing narrative paragraph before the
application of mind mapping strategy ( pre test), to find out the data about the
students‟ competence in writing narrative paragraph after the application of mind
mapping strategy ( post test), to find out the data about The Influence Of The
Application of Mind Mapping Strategy on Students‟ Competence in Writing
Narrative Paragraph.
The research design in writing this thesis is experiment. The model of
experiment is one group pre test and post test design. The population of this research
is the second year students of SMP Wahidin Kota Cirebon. The researcher uses class
VII A it is consists of 40 students.
The result of the questionnaire shows that average score of the application of
mind mapping strategy as X variable is 70.65.Result of mean percentage is equal to
38.75 % strongly agree (SA), agree (A) 41.975 %, neutral (N) 6.5% disagree (DA)
7.375 % and strongly disagree (DSA) 5.125 %. The mean score before the treatment
is 55.9, and the mean score after the treatment is 75.525. The computation of th
