INCREASING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL BY USING MIND MAPPING MODEL AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 1 WERTAMRIAN

Abstrak

In learning English, students should master the four-language skills. There are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing is important skill which the students should master it well. The aim of writing lesson is to make the students be able to written communicate with others persons using English. Based on the interviews with English teacher, the writer founds the problems. They are, the English score of the students were still low, the students had less motivation in teaching and learning process so the most of them dislike to learn English, and also the teaching and learning process tend only to use conventional model especially to writing. Based on the problem above, the writer conducts a research by Using Mind Mapping Model to Improve Students writing skill at the firs grade of SMP Negeri 1 Wertamrian. And the formulation of the research problem are (1) Does mind mapping model increasing students writing skill at the first grade of SMP Negeri 1 Wertamrian. The objective of this research was to find out that Mind Mapping model improves students writing skill at the first grade of SMP Negeri 1 Wertamrian. The writer did the classroom Action Research in two cycles. The result of the action research Cycle I and Cycle II showed that the students writing skill had improved through the implementation of mind mapping model. If it compared to the result of the writing pre-test, it is clearly that the score Cycle I and Cycle II were higher than the pre-test. On pre-test, there were 8 students who passed the test, it means that 17 students did not pass. On the cycle I, there were 13 students who passed the test, the students were able to writing skill well, it means that 12 students did not pass. Then the Cycle II there were 23students who passed test, of the students were able to writing successfully. It indicated that the implementation of mind mapping model at the first grade was successful. From the results of this study, it is expected that teachers apply learning with the Mind Mapping learning model in teaching English subjects, especially writing skills. for other researchers are expected to be able to research using other model or approaches in order to improve the quality of learning in schools.