Students' Perception on The Use of Mind Mapping in The Classroom at English Department

This research is about students perception on using mind mapping in the classroom at english department. The presence and availability of teaching media are expected to help teacher and students to solve learning obstacles, over past few years, many researchers have found a strategy that make learners successfully remember and retrieve information from textbooks called mind mapping strategy. Nowadays mind map is widely used in academic world and it is used for a variety of purposes and the writer wants to know whether the students perceive this media as useful or not so useful in classroom activities. This study is to describe the student’s perception toward the use of mind map in reading text. The aim of this research is to investigate the students’ perceptions on the use of mind mapping in teaching. This research use qualitative approach there were 16 students selected to be the respondent of this research, because they have mind mapping assignment in the class which given by lecture. The writer uses interview technique. Semi-structured interview is applied in this data collection. The data of interview are analysed by using descriptive qualitative analysis. The writer concludes that this research showed positive feedback from the participants toward the use of mind mapping. Since mind mapping gives many benefit for students, they agreed that mind mapping should be implemented in learning process in the future.
keywords : mind mapping, students’ perception, reading skill