The English Teacher of SMP Negeri 15 Yogyakarta The other Students or Readers Future Researchers

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E. Research Benefits

This research is expected to give some contributions and benefits to English language teaching, especially for:

1. The English Teacher of SMP Negeri 15 Yogyakarta

Since this research focuses on students‟ responses, it is beneficial for the English teacher of SMP Negeri 15 Yogyakarta. As stated previously, this research provides a research about students‟ responses to the use of mind mapping to increase their ability in organizing ideas in writing a descriptive text. The result of students ‟ responses about mind mapping will be varied. The English teacher can use the students‟ responses in developing their writing skill through mind mapping technique. This research also presented students‟ suggestion on the use of mind mapping. The students‟ suggestions give the contribution to the English teacher of SMP Negeri 15 Yogyakarta in implementing better learning material in writing. This research can also reflect to the teachers whether the use of mind mapping has improved the students‟ ability in organizing ideas or not.

2. The other Students or Readers

Since the researcher conducted the research about learning strategies, especially in writing skill, it is useful for the students or readers to choose the most appropriate learning strategies that can be used in some scales of learning.. In this research, the researcher conducted a research about a strategy called mind mapping. Students or readers have to know the learning strategies which can work effectively on himher so it can help them to increase their ability in writing. By reading this research, the readers can get more information about the use of mind 7 mapping so that it can really help the readers to increase their ability in organizing their ideas. The readers can also use the result of this research to be their consideration and knowledge when they want to use mind mapping especially in writing.

3. Future Researchers

This research is expected to support other researchers to do further discussions which are related to the topic of the use of mind mapping in teaching writing. The future researchers can develop this research into a classroom action research using the same topic, which is the use of mind mapping, to increase the students‟ ability in organizing ideas in writing descriptive text. Moreover, the future researchers can also make some modules for the research and development.

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