The Effectiveness of Mind Mapping and Group Discussion to Increase the Students’ Speaking Ability (A Quasi Experimental Research of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Bawen in Academic Year of 2015/ 2016)

Rusydina, Atikah (2016) The Effectiveness of Mind Mapping and Group Discussion to Increase the Students’ Speaking Ability (A Quasi Experimental Research of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Bawen in Academic Year of 2015/ 2016). Other thesis, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan.

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Abstract

The aims of this study are: (1) The students’ achievement in speaking ability of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Bawen, (2) The effectiveness of Mind Mapping and Group Discussion to increase students’ speaking ability of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Bawen. This research applies quasi experimental research. The objects of this research are two classes in the eighth grade of SMP N 1 Bawen that are chosen using purposive sampling from 9 classes. The first class is 8B as the experimental group and 8F as the Comparison group. The data was collected from the pre-test and post-test score. The data was analyzed using t-test formula by comparing the mean of the difference score of pre-test and post-test from both of experimental and Comparison classes. The level of significance is set equal or less than 5%. The result of this research shows that t-value or t-test 1,8641 is higher than t-table 1,66827 with the degree of freedom (df) of 66 (N1+N2-2). Therefore, it can be concluded that there is any effectiveness of mind mapping and group discussion in increasing students’ speaking ability.Total of the difference score of comparison group showed 1173, it is higher than the total of the difference score of experimental group that was 998. It can be concluded that group discussion was more effective to increase the students’ speaking ability of the eight students of SMP N 1 Bawen in the academic year 2015/ 2016.

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