SCANNING SKILLS IN READING COMPREHENSION : AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TOWARD EIGHT GRADERS OF MADRASAH STANAWIYAH

• Main Author: Mia Rosmiati, - (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2010-12-10.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Link Metadata
• Notes: http://repository.upi.edu/94276/3/s_c0351_034059_table_of_content.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/94276/1/s_c0351_034059_chapter1.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/94276/2/s_c0351_034059_chapter3.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/94276/4/s_c0351_034059_chapter5.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/94276/5/s_c0351_034059_bibliography.pdf
• Keywords: L Education (General)

ABSTRACT This research entitled "The Use of Mind Mapping Technique in Improving Students' Writing Ability". It aims to find out whether mind mapping improves students' ability in increasing descriptive writing skill. To analyze the data, a quasi-experimental design was employed. It involves two eighth graders classes in a school in Bandung. Data were obtained through pre-test, post-test, and questionnaires. Data analyzed by using t-test on mind mapping technique. The questionnaires are used to investigate students' responses toward mind mapping technique. The findings show that significance value is lower than 0.05, (0.008< 0.05, r = 0.369), meaning that mind mapping improves the students' ability in writing descriptive text. In addition, data taken from questionnaire reveal that students mostly respond mind mapping positively. The students claim that this technique offers interesting learning, challenge creativity, and serves new simple technique to write especially in descriptive text. So, it is recommended for further researcher to conduct a research for other skills and other techniques. ABSTRACT The title of the study is "Scanning Skills in Reading Comprehension (An experimental study towards eight graders of madrasah tsanawiyah In cimahi)". The study investigated the effectiveness of scanning skills in teaching reading. The study took two group, control and experimental group, each group consist of 35 students. The method of the study was experimental study. In collecting the data, the present study used pre-test and post-test as the instrument then calculated them by using t-test. The study shows that scanning skills is considered effective in improving their reading comprehension. It indicates by the score after the treatment (post-test score ) of experimental group is higher than control group.