%0 Generic
%A Bahrunsyah,, CHAIRUNNISA
%C Universitas Lampung
%D 2013
%F eprints:1326
%I Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
%T THE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE TO INCREASE STUDENT’S READING  COMPREHENSION IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS  OF SMP NEGERI 3 BANDAR LAMPUNG
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/1326/
%X Reading is one of the language skills that should be mastered by the students after following a set  of English Instruction at school. One of the targets of national curriculum for English at junior  high-school (SMP) level is students’ comprehension on various types of texts, such as recount,  descriptive, and narrative. However, it is common that most students are observed being  reluctant to read reading texts, even the short ones. Their lack of vocabulary mastery also limit  their effort to achieve reading comprehension. Therefore, the teacher should be creative in  selecting the techniques to be used in teaching reading activities in classroom, in order to boost  students’ reading comprehension without stuck with such problems.  The objective of this research is to find out whether using Mind Mapping technique is an  effective way to increase the students’ ability in reading comprehension. The population of this  research was the second year students of SMP Negeri 3 Bandar Lampung that consists of seven  classes and two classes were chosen as the experimental class and the try-out class. This research  is quantative research. The research design was one group pretest posttest design. In collecting  data, the reseacher administered pretest, treatments, and posttest. In analyzing the data, the TTest  was employed to reach the significant value.  The result of the students’ score before and after treatments implied that Mind Mapping  technique could increase the students’ reading comprehesions. Data analysis on the mean score  of pre-test was (� � = 57.64) and post-test was (� � � �����). By comparing between the mean of  pre-test and post-test, it can be found that the increase of the mean was 14.47 point. Pairedsample  t-test indicates signifiant increase of students reading comprehension achievement after  the implementation of Mind Mapping technique (�(33) = 8.790; p = 0.000, p	0.05). In  conclusion, Mind Mapping technique is worth applying in the teaching –learning of English  reading comprehension ability, particularly at the second year students of SMPN 3 Bandar  Lampung.