Abstract:
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of applying mind mapping
learning method on the students’ writing descriptive text. The samples of this study
was eighth grade at SMP Swasta Triana. They were VIII-A class as experimental
class and VIII-B as controlled class. Each class consisted of 25 students. The
method used in this study was quantitative method. In addition, the design of this
study was a quasi-experimental study by using pre-test and post-test design. The
instrument of this study was written test, the rubric analytical scoring used to score
the students’ writing descriptive text on pre-test and post-test. The result of this
study that there was a positive effect of the result students’ writing descriptive text
after using Mind Mapping learning method. It can be seen from the calculation of
tobserve was higher than ttable. The result of tobserve is 3.09 since ttable in the degree of
significant 5% is 1.67. It shows that the comparison of tobserve and ttable is 3.09 >
1.67. To sum up, t-test is higher than t-table so Mind Mapping Technique is method
on students’ writing of descriptive text
