Abstract:
This research was carried out to investigate the effect of using Concept Map
(CmapTools) program on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. The
method of the research was experimental research method. The population of this
study was the eighth (VIII) students of SMP Tarbiyah Islamiyah on Jalan Perintis
Kemerdekaan – Simpang Beringin Hamparan Perak in academic year 2017/2018,
which consist of three classes. The number of population were 90 students’. The
classes were defined into two groups, namely experimental and control group. All the
population was taken as sample. The experimental group was taught by using
Concept Map (CmapTools) program as media and control group was not taught by
using Concept Map (CmapTools) program. The instrument of research was written
test. That were writing descriptive text about “elephant”. The finding indicated that
> or >2,639. The finding of the research showed that there was a significant
effect of using of Concept Map (CmapTools) program as media has a significant
effect on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text because was higher
than
( >2,639). It meant that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. The
students’ difficulties by using Concept map (CmapTools) program on the students’
achievement in writing descriptive text are the students needed a little time when they
are asked to understand the diagram of CmapTool, the students were not able to use
the infocus when the researcher asked to help the researcher. And the facility of the
school did not support to use the media as CmapTool. when the electricity was off.