Fadilah Rahmawati (2011) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS BY USING MIND MAP TECHNIQUE AT THE SECOND YEAR OF MTS YKWI PEKANBARU. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

The research was carried out at the second year students of MTs YKWI Pekanbaru. The researcher was interested in conducting the research, because the researcher found that the students’ ability in writing descriptive text were still low, under the school standard. The purpose of this research was to find out students’ ability in writing descriptive texts in experimental and control group. Since the condition of the second year students of MTs YKWI Pekanbaru, the writer decided to use Mind Map to improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text for experimental class. Control group was using conventional method. To collect the data, the writer used observation and test as instruments. Observation was used to know the teachers’ implementation of Mind Map for experimental class after the data obtained. The writer computed the percentage of the observation by using following formula: x100% FN P  The test was used to know the students’ ability in writing descriptive texts by using Mind Map in experimental group and conventional method was for control group. The data were analyzed by using t-test with SPSS.16. From the data analysis it can be concluded the mean score test of post test in experimental group is 62.0667 and 47.1000 in control group, where the mean difference is 15.0667. Based on the taking decision standard 0.01 is smaller than 0.05, it means H 0 is rejected and H a accepted. It means, there is significant difference between students’ ability taught by using Mind Map and conventional method at the second year students of MTs YKWI Pekanbaru.

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