INCREASING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY THROUGH MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE OF REPORT TEXT

This research was aimed at examining: (i) whether there is significant increase on students’ reading comprehension ability after being taught through Mind Mapping Technique of report text and (ii) the aspect of reading skills that increased the most and the least. The subjects of this research were 28 students in class X. The data in form of scores were collected using multiple choices and analized using SPSS 16.0. The result of this research showed that there was significant increased of students’ reading comprehension to a report text after being taught through Mind Mapping technique since t-value > t-table (7.796 > 2.051) with significant value was 0.05. The average score of pre-test was 82.36 and the average score of post-test was 95.02. It gained 10.16 and the most increased aspect of reading skills is vocabulary whereas the least increased is finding detail information.