28 use personal associations to make and is easy to remember the new information
obtained by the students and also to visualize in the thinking process. It is proven that mind mapping is a useful technique to master a foreign language, especially
English.
In this study, the focus of mind mapping is the use of speaking skill. In the speaking skill, mind mapping can be used in order to develop students’
organization of ideas. Mind mapping is usually used in the preparation to make and develop the students’ speaking. Moreover, in the speaking performance, mind
mapping is used for reminder of their content. As stated by Hofland 2007: 38, students can use mind mapping to prepare a topic of a speech. In addition, during
the task, mind mapping can only be used for reminder for them. In mind mapping there is no sentence, it should be only keywords and symbols.
2.2 Theoritical Framework
Before knowing further about the students’ perceptions on the use of mind mapping to develop their organization of ideas in speaking skill, the students
should be taught how to make mind mapping, determine the purpose and the ideas of speaking, and organize their speaking systematically. Moreover the theories
proposed by Hofland 2007 and Buzan 2003 are used as the basic foundation of how to make mind mapping. The theories proposed by Koch 1995 also used as
the basic foundation how to determine the purpose and the ideas of speech or speaking, and how to organize the students’ speech content systematically.
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implementation of teaching learning activities is necessary. It should be known whether the activities can be useful, meaningful, or helpful for the students in the
teaching learning process or not. It will be meaningless if the technique is great but it is not appropriate with the students’ need. Considering the students’ needs,
the theory of the nature of perception proposed by Huffman et al. 1997 and the theory of the factors influencing perception proposed by Altman et al. 1985 will
be used as the basic foundation for the teachers to analyze how students think and respond the use of mind mapping. The data of the students’ perceptions are
obtained based on the experiences of the students in using mind mapping to develop their organization of ideas in speaking. Moreover, knowing the specific
technique that can be used in teaching speaking skill based on the types of speaking is also necessary. As stated by Brown 2004 there are five basic types
of speaking namely imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, and extensive monologue. Mind mapping which will be used as the technique in speaking skill
in this study belongs to extensive monologue. After knowing the perception of the students on the use of mind mapping
in speaking skill, theory proposed by Hofland 2007 about mind mapping concept are used as the foundation to analyze the implication of the students’
perception on the use of mind mapping in this study. The implications of the students’ perceptions on the use of mind mapping can be carried by seeing the
reason of the students’ in the data instruments. Moreover, the reason from the data can be analyzed with the theory from Hofland 2007, Buzan 2008 about the
30 benefits of mind mapping and from Luoma 2004 about the features of spoken
discourse. Overall, all of the theories of perception, speaking, and mind mapping will
be used as the basic foundation of the researcher to develop and conduct the study. For the researcher, the theories are used as one unity to reflect whether the
teaching learning activities are implemented well or not since teachers should be able to realize and be aware of the students’ needs in the teaching learning
process.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the researcher will discuss how the study will be conducted. It provides deeper information how to gather the data and analyze the
data to answer the research problems. This chapter consists of six parts namely research method, research setting, research participants, instruments and data
gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure.
3.1 Research Method
This study belongs to survey research in which the researcher uses it to answer the research problems. According to Frankel and Wallen 1998: 389,
survey research is a study which enables the researcher to collect the information from a group of people to describe abilities, opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and or
knowledge. Survey research collects the information through asking questions which can be presented in the questionnaires and interviews. The advantage of
survey research is that the data can be collected in short time. Besides, survey research is conducted for problem solving rather than hypothesis testing.
Furthermore, to analyze the results of the research, the researcher used qualitative and quantitative research. For most of the data instruments, this study
used qualitative research in which the researcher used survey research to conduct the research. Quantitative research was used in analyzing the data of the research.
This research also used numerical data to be analyzed. Moreover, in this study, the
