second meeting would be guided practice. In this meeting, the teacher would give some tasks so that the students could practice using Mind Mapping technique in reading. In the
third meeting, the students would independently use Mind Mapping Bubble to help them comprehend the text.
In the beginning of each meeting, the teacher, that was also the researcher, would remind them about the previous materials and explain how to use Mind Mapping
technique in reading. The teacher would also use slide shows as the media to attract students’ interest. At the end of the cycle, the teacher would do some assessments.
2. Actions and Observation
During the actions, the researcher worked with a collaborator, the English teacher of SMP BOPKRI 3. When the researcher played the role as a teacher, the collaborator
helped him observe the class and give feedback. In the end of the meeting, the collaborator would gave some reflection and recommendation about the meeting.
As it was planned, Cycle I was conducted in three meetings. In the first meeting, the teacher gave some examples or models on how using Mind Mapping to help the
students comprehend the content of written text. In the second meeting, the students were guided by the teacher to practice using Mind Mapping in reading. In the third meeting,
the students practiced using Mind Mapping independently. The details of each meeting are presented below.
a. Meeting 1 The first meeting was conducted on March 4
th,
2014. Previously on February 28
th
, 2014, the researcher conducted a pretest and gave some briefing about the research. The
researcher explained his attempt to solve the students’ reading comprehension problems through Mind Mapping technique. The researcher also gave a brief explanation about
Mind Mapping technique. On March 4
th
, the researcher started the lesson by asking about the students’ favorite story. The students answered variously. Then the researcher asked them to retell
the story briefly but the students suddenly felt shy and kept silent. After the researcher
allowed them to used mixed language English-Indonesia to retell the story, some students wanted to try. Then the researcher started to introduce The Ugly Duckling
narrative text. The researcher distributed the students’ sheet and prepared the text in slide show.
Then the researcher asked some students randomly to read the text. The first student read the first paragraph, then the next one should read the second paragraph and so on. After
reading the text once, the researcher checked the student understanding by asking some questions related to the text. The students could answer the simple question such as about
the name of the characters correctly, but for the next questions, they kept silent. The researchers asked about their difficulty in comprehending the text. One of the students
answered in Bahasa Indonesia, “gak paham pak, teksnya panjang jadi bingung jawab soal dan nyari artinya nya”
Then, the researcher read the text once again in order to make the students understand better. After reading the text, the researcher asked the students to mention
difficult vocabularies and try to find the meaning together from the dictionary. Moreover, the researcher also helped the students to translate some sentences. Therefore, the
students could comprehend the text better since they knew the meaning of the words used in the text. Then, the researcher introduced them about how to use Mind Mapping
technique. The researcher showed the Mind Mapping of narrative text in the slide show. Together with the students, the researcher filled the bubble based on the story. Some
students actively answered each question from the researcher. After finishing the bubble, the researcher called on some students to answer about the detailed information from the
story. Most of them could answer the questions correctly although they mixed it with Bahasa Indonesia in answering.
In the end of the meeting, the researcher explained about the activities they would do in the next meeting. The researcher also asked if the students still had questions during
the lesson. b. Meeting 2
