THE USE OF MIND MAPPING STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

The research entitled “The Use of Mind Mapping Strategy to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill” (a pre-experimental study done in the second grade of junior high school). The aims are to test the effectiveness of mind mapping strategy in teaching English speaking and also to get students’ response toward the use mind mapping strategy. A pre-experimental design was employed in this research. The writer used test and questionnaires as the instruments. The population of the research was second grade of junior high school and the sample used one class, it was VIII-E consists of 30 students. In the research, the experimental group had given treatments of using mind mapping strategy for three times. In the data analysis, the writer computed the means of pre-test and post-test score using the t-test formula. The mean score in the pre-test was 42, while in the post-test was 66.83. After being analyzed, it showed that there was improvement after the treatments. The obtained t-observe was 8.445, whereas the t-table was 2.045. The t-test was bigger than t-table (8.445 > 2.045). It showed that the use of mind mapping strategy is effective to improve students’ speaking ability. Based on the questionnaire result, the writer concluded that almost all of the students showed positive response toward the use of mind mapping. They liked studying English speaking by using mind mapping strategy. So, they got a lot of benefit and experience, it could increase their creativity and imagination, make them more focus in speaking, remember the vocabularies better and learn English more fun. In other words, the students responded positively in learning English speaking by using mind mapping strategy.
Keywords : Mind Mapping, strategy, Students’ Speaking Skill