AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING “MIND MAP” AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMP ISLAM TERPADU ADZKIA PADANG

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Abstract
To master English as a foreign language, there are four skills that should be acquired by the students. They are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Writing is a complex process that allow writer to explore thoughts and ideas, and make them visible and concrete. The purpose of this research is to describe the students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using mind map at second grade of SMP Islam Terpadu Adzkia Padang. Descriptive text is a kind of writing that express the idea to describe something, people, or place. The total number of population of this research 51 students. The researcher took 50% of the population as the sample. It means thatthere were 25 students as the sample. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique in taking the sample. In collecting the data, the rsearcher used writing test. In this test, the students chose the topic they like most. Based on the result of try out test, the test was categoryzed as a reliable test. The result of data analysis it was showed that 4 students (16%) got high ability, 19 students (76%) got moderate ability and 2 students (8%) got low ability. The result of this research showed that in general the students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using mind map at second grade of SMP IT Adzkia Padang was moderate. So that, it is suggested for the English teacher at SMP IT Adzkia Padang to give more explanation and exercise in writing descriptive text by using mind map.
Key Words: Ability, cluster random sampling, descriptive text, mind map.