teachers rarely use this technique. It helps both teacher and students to organize their ideas in a good way.
a. The Concept of Mind Mapping in Reading
A good taking note method should assist the readers to remember the content of the texts, increase the comprehension of texts, organize the ideas and
provide new knowledge. Mind mapping offers an easy and creative way to obtain, remember and organize a lot of information from the texts DePorter, 2003: 175.
Mind mapping enquires readers to note a lot of information they get from the text in one long page. Besides, mind mapping technique employs pictures as well as
texts so that it can raise readers’ motivation in gaining the information from the text. The ideas in mind mapping relate each other in creating a web of ideas which
the mind idea is in the centre of the web and the supporting ideas are placed as the branches of the main idea.
Buzan 2003: 6 states that left brain is related to number skill, written language, reasoning, spoken language, scientific skills, and right hand control. On
the other hand, right brain is closely related to insight, 3D-form, art awareness, imagination, music awareness, and left hand control. Based on these functions, it
can be definitely concluded that students tend to use left brain most of the time. Almost all of the students’ activities require less working of right brain. As a
result, right brain is normally less developed than the left one. However, mind mapping technique facilitates students to develop both parts of brain. Mind
mapping employs almost every aspect in both left and right brain so that those two parts will be balanced-functioned.
According to Buzan 2003: 7, principally, mind mapping simply applies four aspects. They are words, colours, lines, and pictures. Instead of making list
with some bullets going down in a stripe paper, mind mapping enables students to take notes in tidy branches. By putting main idea in the middle and draw some
branches from it, students are free to express their ideas and they even have more spaces to go back and forth from one idea to another since they could add the
branches easily. In this case, students employ most of the left brain functions by applying words, logics, numbers, and sequence. To make right brain works
efficiently, mind mapping enables students to develop their imagination and art awareness. Students could add any small pictures that come up to their mind next
to some notes. Pictures are not necessary to be great. These pictures merely functions to help students to remember things. To break the boredom away,
various colours are used instead of mono colour such as only black or blue. According to DePorter 2003: 177, mind mapping is an uncomplicated
technique to accomplish. There are five steps in constructing a mind mapping. 1
Put a blank paper on a table and then write the main idea in the centre of the page.
2 Draw thick lines and connect them to each supporting idea.
3 Name each line with different colours for each different idea.
4 Put other thinner lines as the expansion of each supporting idea.
5 Set pictures, symbols and sign to assist readers to remember the texts.
Understanding the concept of mind mapping technique, it is crucial to know the benefits of mind mapping technique. It can help the researcher to
implement the mind mapping technique and to encourage the students’ motivation in reading narrative text. Identifying the benefits of mind mapping technique, the
researcher exploits the technique to enhance the students’ narrative reading comprehension.
b. Benefits of Mind Map
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