The Use of Mind Mapping as a Way to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Narrative Text

This research is entitled “the use of mind mapping as a way to improve students’ ability in writing narrative text”, at the first grade student of SMAN 2 Meureudu. The aim of this study is to find out to what extent mind mapping improve students’ ability in writing narrative text. To achieve the goal of this study, the researcher did Experimental research was used as a method in this study and research design used was quasi experimental research. The study was carried out in two classes, they are a control class and the experimental class. The data were gathered through tests which were delivered into the pre-test, post-test and questionaires were used as intrument in this research. The result of this study indicates that the mind mapping technique is effective to use in writing narrative text. Students gained score of the experimental class (30) is higher than the control class (13,93). This scores prove that the significant different between experimental class and control class. Therefore, teaching writing of narrative text by using mind mapping technique is effective.