AN ANALYSIS OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NEWS ITEM TEXT USING MIND MAPPING AT SMA NEGERI 3 KERINCI

Tri Julman, Eldea and Welya, Roza and Fatimah, Tanjung (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NEWS ITEM TEXT USING MIND MAPPING AT SMA NEGERI 3 KERINCI. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to describe the ability of the tenth grade students’ ability in writing news item text by using mind mapping at SMA NEGERI 3 KERINCI. The design of this research was descriptive. The number of members of population of this research was 137. The researcher used cluster random sampling in taking the sample. The researcher took 19.42 % of the population as the sample, and there were 27 students as the sample. In collecting the data, the researcher used writing test form. In this test, the students were asked to choose topics about incident or phenomenon. After the researcher did the real test, he had it to see the reliability. The result of the test showed that the reliability of the test was 0.99. It means that, the test was reliable. In analyzing the data based on the result of writing test, the researcher presented the raw score in table of frequency distribution, and then calculated the students’ score, classified the students who got high, moderate, or low ability, and finally, counted the percentage of the member of students according to their abilities. Generally, the result of this research showed that the ability of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 3 KERINCI in writing news item text using mind map technique was moderate, it was indicated by the fact that 15 students (55.5%) got moderate ability. There were 15 students (55.5%) who got moderate ability in writing content, 18 students (66.6%) got moderate ability in using language feature, 23 students (85.185%) got moderate ability in using appropriate vocabulary, and 20 students (74%) got moderate ability in applying mechanics. Based on the result above, a simple conclusion could be drawn that the students’ ability to write news item text in using mind mapping was moderate. Relating to this conclusion, the researcher suggests to both English teacher and the students. Since the results was moderate, the researcher hopes the teachers gives students more knowledge, explanation, vocabulary, and exercises in order to help them in improving their ability in writing news item text. The students should possess enough knowledge on components of news item text, and do more exercises to write the news item text.

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