students were able to look for the relationships. The students used colors, lines, arrows to show the connections among the ideas generated on their mind-map.
Second, they drew quickly on unlined paper without pausing, judging or editing. Third, they wrote down key ideas. Fourth, they put main idea in the center. The
last, they leaved a lot of space.
2. The Implementation of Mind-mapping Technique Based on the Interview
The result of the interview with one of the lecturers of ER II gave a description on how mind-mapping technique was implemented in the class. The
lecturer said that the goal of implementing mind-mapping was especially to help the student make summary of the reading passages. Besides, the lecturer
implemented mind-mapping in order to help the students analyze and retell the idea, and improve their understanding.
The lecturer also explained how the mind-mapping was implemented in the class. The lecturer offered software called Mind-Manager to help them build
the mind maps. The students had to submit the mind-map containing the concepts of the reading passages they read once in a week starting from the fourth
meeting of the class. The lecturer also offered to the students a computer program, namely
Mind-Manager, to help them build their mind-maps. However, it was not
obligatory. The students were free to use it or not. This indicated that the lecturer gave a degree of freedom to the students in relation to the way of the learning.
Ninety percents of the students chose to use mind-mapping technique. The rest
preferred not to use it. This signified that most of the students were interested in this technique.
Based on the analysis above, it could be seen generally how mind mapping was implemented in ER II. The lecturer gave explanation on the activities related
to the use of mind-mapping technique. From the interview, the researcher can see the lecturer’s motivation, goal, and expectation of implementing mind-
mapping technique. The lecturer implemented the mind-mapping in the class in order to help
the students summarize their reading passages, analyze and retell the idea, and improve their understanding. It would help them to do their weekly task to
summarize one reading passage. Besides, by implementing mind-mapping technique in ER II, the lecturer expected that it would be useful for their literacy
development. They were analysis, synthesize, evaluate. In other words, it would be useful to develop the students’ cognitive skill.
B. The Students’ Perception on the Use of Mind-mapping Technique in
