DATA DISPLAY AND FINDINGS
This chapter presents the data display and research findings based on the problems of research stated in the first chapter, namely perceived the effectiveness of using the mind-mapping technique for learning to write argumentative essays and students' challenges for learning to write Argumentative writing through the use of the mind mapping.
A. Students’ Perceived The effectiveness Of Using Mind-Mapping Technique For Learning To Write Argumentative Essays Based On Questionaire
The researcher used a questionnaire as the first instrument to collect the data about the perceived effectiveness of using mind mapping for writing argumentative essays. The questionnaire adapted from Fuad Nur Cahyo, The result of the Questionnaires presented as follows:
1. Motivation and Interesting
Motivation and interest is the important thing, it is something that positive energies to make students' happier to learning writing process using the mind mapping method. Based on the interview result, the students were highly motivated in joining the learning writing process using the mind mapping technique. The mind mapping method is a more interesting technique than others. Here are the students' answers about improving
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motivation and interest in learning the writing process best on students' answer in the questionnaire.
“....I am still to be motivated because my self-confidence increases
significantly because we can be more active in the class, usually we just sit and write the materials...” S2
“...It interesting and motivated me because Mind Mapping helps to group
the words which are under the same theme, so it doesn't make the paragraph muddle and it becomes more well-organized because we can discuss the answer with our partner, it is interesting for me.” S3
“I am still to be motivated because it can help me to arrange the paragraph
so that the paragraph becomes well-organized.....” S4
“I am still to be motivated because the mind mapping technique is more
attractive and relax makes me excited to learning writing.” S5
“....Mind mapping is simple and fun, because of that mind mapping is
interesting...” -S9-
The above interview result showed that most of the students were motivated and interesting in using the mind mapping method in the learning writing process, mind mapping technique can motivated students to writing because is not difficult to apply the technique for students'. This improvement is the result of the implementation of Mind Maps which able to attract the students' interest in learning English, especially in writing.
These conditions show that the student's motivation in learning English, especially in writing improves.
47 2. Self- Confident
Self-confidence is an attitude about students' skills and abilities. It means students accept, trust, and have a positive view. Self-confidence is the one of big aspects when students present in front of the class. self- confident can improve themselves the trusting herself and trust to their ability. Respond are the students' respond about the mind mapping technique could improve the students' self-confidence.
“....The simple and easy method it makes me have the self-confidence to present my essay or assignment in front of the class....” –S8-
“..It makes increases my confidence because I know the structure and
mechanism how to make the paragraph....”
“....Yes increasing my confidence because I can write well than before I used mind mapping ..."
"....Yes makes my confidence because I can make paragraph well It makes me confidence because mind mapping helps me to classification my idea and makes paragraph easier.....”
Based on students reaction above mind mapping improved students confidence significantly, mind mapping has many benefit for students which is improve students self-confidence with the idea classification makes students written essay well, because of that students can presentation their own in front of the class because the students trust for their self, they have an ability and they can do to be a good writer.
48 3. Idea Classification
Organize ideas makes students easier to write an essay because the idea is the important thing when the students start to write the essay, the idea is the important part to makes good writing. A Mind Map can help students' think with considerable coherence to explore relationships between ideas and components of an argument and to create solutions to problems. It puts a new opinion on things by allowing you to see all the related issues and analyze choices in light of the big picture. It also becomes easier to combine new knowledge and organize information logically as you are not bounded to a stringent structure. The following responses indicate such findings.
"....Mind mapping organize my ideas before writing...." -S1-
"....The mind mapping allows to memorizing the keywords and symbols..." -S2-
"....Using mind mapping technique makes me easier to manage my idea and more easy to make a paragraph..." -S3-
"....It makes me in more creative because it forces me to arrange the idea and also force me to arrange more detail of idea..." -S4-
" ....It helps me in the learning of writing and I think with mind mapping I can enjoy and more easy to make a paragraph...." -S6-
"....mind mapping technique It makes me easier and makes my writing a little bit challenging because even though the issue is difficult, I can organize the paragraph easier...." -S7-
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"...I can easily and fun using mind mapping technique in learning writing process because I can make paragraph easier trough classification the idea..." -S10-
"....In my opinion, mind mapping helps to classify the content in each paragraph because I have made a plan to be written in the paragraph later..." S12
The above interview result showed that most of the students can explore their ideas through their creativity using lines, branches, pictures, and color, strengthen their memory, and boost their interests in using mind mapping. Some reason why mind mapping helps students and increase their ability in writing because mind mapping is easier to understand, grouping or classification ideas, mind mapping can organize the students' time to makes sentences well, developing paragraph, allows to memorize the keywords, mind mapping I can enjoy and more easy to make a paragraph.
The students reported that the through ideas in bubbles helped them to plan their writing more easily. Furthermore, the content of the paragraph could be classified well when the students made mind mapping. makes paragraph easier through classification the idea.
Besides, developing or organizing the ideas could make their writing coherent. The ability in using the correct mechanism helps students easier to write the paragraph related to another paragraph.
50 4. Students’ Efficiency
Mind Maps is useful to guide the students in writing, so they don't confuse in the middle of writing because they don't have anything in mind to be written because of that students using the time well not wasting time.
Here are the students' reactions about using the mind mapping technique for learning writing to promote students' efficiency to organize their text.
"....in my experience using mind mapping is not wasting time because there was an idea organizer so I can write paragraphs easier and past..."
"...using mind mapping in the learning writing process Makes me writing past than before because the concepts are very clear to understand..."
"...using mind mapping method to writing argumentative essays is easier to make good sentences so that, It makes me have a lot of time to correct it more..."
"...I am very excited because the concepts are very interesting with color, keywords and the idea classification make me past to understand the topic..."
Based on the students' reaction above, the mind mapping technique is effective to improve students learning writing in argumentative essays.
Based on findings, the learner’s writing skills is improved optimally. Mind mapping is effective because mind mapping is efficient to understand the topic with keywords and idea classification make students past to writing sentence and paragraph when they writing an essay. Students are excited to
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learning writing because the mind mapping method helps them organizing the mechanism, concept, idea, and not wasting time.
B. Students Challenge Using Mind Mapping Technique In Writing Argumentative Essay, Based On Interview.
Because of the situation that, Pandemic Covid-19, the researcher interviewed the students by using WhatsApp as media to collect the data.
The researcher recorded the students' voice to make easier in analyzing the data. In analyzing the interview, firstly, the researcher heard the recording conversation with every interviewee many times. It aimed to understand every answer that was given by the interviewees. After that, the researcher wrote down the transcript of the interview with all the interviewees.
From the students' experience, we took some of the information about the challenges before students using the mind mapping technique there are the students' difficulties to drowned the concepts of mind mapping.
Moreover, students can improve their ability and this problem have a solution, and difficult to group the words. Such finding follows.
1. Draw The Maps
In the data, findings mind mapping for beginners is made students' compose to draw the maps because they can draw the maps correctly, students harder to students feel very challenged by drawing mind maps because for beginners in the mind mapping method to improve the writing skills they are very difficult to draw a mind map for that according to the
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rest in the questionnaire under them is very difficult. here is the students' response about drawing the mind maps.
" my opinion the challenges of the mind mapping technique in learning writing argumentative essays is when the teacher asking me to draw the new concepts of mind mapping because I think I am not creative to draw the mind maps because mind mapping has structure make me confuse..."
"...I think the mind mapping format is make me confused when I am starting to draw the maps, I think this method is wasting my time. I can understand the concept of mind map when I tried to do my self It can makes me difficulties to analyses the main topic...."
"....The big challenge when I using the mind mapping technique to learning writing essays is when I am starting to draw the maps because I think I am not creative but is the good challenge to me because I am study harder to drow the maps...."
"....The big challenge in mind mapping strategy in learning writing process is drawing the mind mapping structure because I don't like something like mind mapping and diagram I think this method wasting my time...."
Some of the students disagree with using mind mapping is efficient they think mind mapping wasting time because they don't like to drow the structure of the map, based on students reaction above one of the big challenges when students using mind mapping to improve learno9ng writing process is when the teacher asked students to draw the structure of the map, the students think they not creative to drow the good mind maps.
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So they don't like using mind mapping to improve the learning writing process.
2. Grouping Words
Keywords are big aspects in mind mapping picture, so keywords are very important, keywords are the mind idea when the students' start to makes sentences with the keywords in mind mapping helps students to easier to makes a paragraph, but this keyword is challenged to students because they difficult to search the words to put the mind maps picture, here are the students respond about the grouping words.
"....In my opinion, the challenge of using the mind mapping technique is looking for keywords because keywords is very important in mind mappiong structure, because of that I am still careful to look for the best word when I won’t put in mind mapping diagram...."
"...I think mind mapping makes me difficult choose the words, grouping word is very hard for me because I cant to plan my idea well before I find the keywords related to the topic I wanna write..."
"... the challenges of using mind mapping technique is grouping words, choose the keywords to put in mind maps picture. Words have a relation with the topic and how to make the words to be a sentence and paragraph.
From the result above, students difficulty choosing the word to put in mind mapping picture, students said that grouping words is one of the challenges when I am using mind mapping to improve students writing skill,
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finding the right words to make the perfect idea of writing is very difficult to do.