THE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE IN INCREASING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH MINDOMO APPLICATION FOR SECOND GRADE OF SMAN 3 TEUPAH SELATAN

This study aims to determine the use of the mind mapping technique through the mindomo application to improve students' writing skills focused on descriptive text in second grade at SMA Negeri 3 Teupah Selatan 2023/2024 and to find out whether the use of the mind mapping technique through the mindomo application can improve students' writing skills of descriptive text in second grade at SMA Negeri 3 Teupah Selatan. This class consists of 19 students. The author believes that using the mind mapping technique through the mindomo application can be chosen as one of the effective efforts used to overcome students' writing skills in the teaching and learning process. In this study, the author will see whether the use of mind mapping techniques through the mindomo application can improve students' writing skills of descriptive texts. The result of the test shows that there is an increasing score of students from the pre-test to the post-test. The students' pre-test average score was 47.47 which were classified as poor, while the post-test score was higher than the pre-test average score of 78.15 which was categorized as a good category. Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that the accepted hypothesis states that the use of the mind mapping technique through the Mindomo application can increase students' scores in understanding writing descriptive text.