THE USE OF MIND MAPPING METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS READING SKILL AT EIGHT SMP N 5 TANJUNG SELOR
This study aimed to determain the effect of using Mind Mapping method in teaching reading of narrative text to the eight grade students at SMP Negeri 5 Tanjung Selor. This study use quasi experimental desing samples were taken a pruposive sampling. There are two groups taken as a samples in this study, the experimwnt group taught using Mind Mapping method and the control group taught using Picture series. The researcher instrument was written test. The analyzed the data and were taken from the results of the pre test and posttest of the experimental and the control classes. An independent sample t-test was used to analyze the data with the help of SPSS 23.0. The results of this study indicatetd that the mean score of experimental group was 72,27 and that of the control group was 67,60. The critical t-table value (2000) was greater than and the calculated t value (2,256). The probablity was lasser than the level of significance (0,0280,05). In the other worrds, the null hypotesis (HO) was rejected and the alternative hypotesis (Ha) was accepted. The result of the data analysis proved that the teaching result using the Mind Mapping method were higher than that using the Picture Series. Itvwas concluded that he use of mind mapping method in teaching reading of narrative text to the eight grade students at SMP Negri 5 Tanjung Selor was more Effective than the use of the Picture Series.