Open AccessTHE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MIND MAPPING METHOD TO INCREASE STUDENTS' WRITING SKILLS AT THE TWELFTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 4 PEMATANGSIANTAR IN THE 2022 ACADEMIC YEAR
Author(s) -
Yosefa Patresia,
Feronika Wasti Pasaribu,
Rendy Yahya Sitorus
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
review of multidisciplinary education, culture and pedagogy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2810-0743
DOI - 10.55047/romeo.v1i2.96
Subject(s) - mathematics education , vocabulary , creativity , sma* , psychology , professional writing , computer science , pedagogy , linguistics , social psychology , philosophy , algorithm
Writing is the most difficult skill because we know that by writing means we must be required to be able to compose language properly and correctly. To be able to write well, we must be able to think creatively and innovatively, to be able to produce a language that is worthy of writing. Writing is a skill that must be mastered by students because it has been explained earlier that writing is a difficult skill, so students want to be led to master it. In this study, researchers found that students of SMA Negeri 4 Pematangsiantar, especially grade 12 science, had problems writing an incident or explaining something by writing a description of the incident. This happened because they did not have detailed ideas when they were asked to explain the picture or the incident.
They also feel lazy and bored when writing something, even if it's just a descriptive text. Many students lack the intention and motivation to write, and that's why most of them get bad grades in learning to write. They do not know what they should do in writing, choosing topics and problems and the order in paragraphs that they do not understand. And that causes the achievement obtained by students to below because they don't get much achievement. Because their vocabulary is very minimal and they also don't have ideas, innovation, and creativity in thinking so they are not able to write.
The research was to find out whether there was effectiveness in the mind mapping method, especially for grade 12 students at SMA Negeri 4 Pematangsiantar, and also the researchers wanted to see if students were able to improve their writing using the mind mapping method. Based on the data generated from students' research in improving their writing skills through the mind mapping method, it can be concluded that the average of the pre-test and post-test obtained in the first cycle is 32.31 and 58.28 and a significant difference is found in the second cycle, which is 49.90 and 71.09. And it can be seen that the value after using the mind mapping method increased in cycle 2.