C. Mind Mapping
1. The General Concept of Mind Mapping
There are many ways to teach genres. Mind mapping is one of good techniques for students or the readers to grasp easily the meaning of the text or
would like to recall the information about the text. Actually there are some definitions about mind mapping. But before that,
we have to know previously what the “min mapping” terminology. Based on Oxford dictionary, mind is the thoughts, interest, etc.
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In other words, mind is defined as the ideas or opinions. Map is a drawing to describe or give information
about something especially the way it is arranged or organized.
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Furthermore, A.S. Hornby said that:
Mind mapping involves the left and the right brain which is in the left brain mind mapping involves some aspects that should be
mastered such as word, number, logic, detail, etc. In the right brain mind mapping involves imagination, daydreaming, rhythm, etc.
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So that, the writer concludes that mind mapping can be ensured as a creative note taking that draws the correlation ideas which make one united
through picture, symbol, keyword, and color. Indeed, mind mapping can solve the learning problems that sourced from the ineffectiveness of the use both brains. It
involves student‟s brain to identify the keyword and to recall what have been written.
Meanwhile, Tony Buzan says that Mind Mapping is a creative note taking, effective, basically it means map someone‟s ideas.
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Its form is a diagram to represent the ideas, words, or other items which are correlated and arranged
around a central keyword. Tony Buzan‟s statement is in line with the linguist Sutanto Windura who said that mind mapping, is a graphic technique which
allows the writer to explore the whole brain ability for the needs of thinking and
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A.S Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English, New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003, p.844.
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Ibid. pp. 815 844.
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Sutanto Windura, BLI, Mind Map Langkah Demi Langkah, Jakarta: Elex Media Komputindo, 2008, p. 5.
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Tony Buzan, Buku Pintar Mind Map, Translt. From The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps by Susi Purwoko, Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2010, P.4.
studying.
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It this sense, mind mapping is a technique used to increase the reader‟s thinking. It is not only for educational need but also for other business, work, fun,
and so on. In accordance with those statements above, mind mapping is a
revolutionary new note taking;
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where many educational experts use it in teaching learning activity. Mind mapping can help students to plan, to
communicate, to be more creative, to economize the time, to center the attention, to arrange and to classify the ideas.
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Based on that fact, mind mapping would be effective for the students to comprehend the texts including descriptive text.
Next, according to Windura, mind mapping is also considered as a technique that enables us to explore all our brain‟s skill for thinking and
studying.
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It means that mind mapping can make our brain active, not only the left hemisphere but also the right hemisphere. Consequently, mind mapping can
overcome all the problems of study that appear from the unbalance of brain‟s usage.
Mind mapping is a diagram
used to represent words
, ideas
, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.
Buzan views that Mind Mapping involves visualizing an issue, problem, subject etc. The subject of the Mind Map is dropped into
the centre, thick branches are drawn to denote key themes and secondary branches are added to indicate subthemes. Branches and
sub branches are clearly labeled either with key words or with graphic representations. Linkages and relationships are indicated
graphically, and use of color and pictures is encouraged.
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Based on that explanation, mind mapping may also aid recall of existing memories
because mind maps‟ elements arrange intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas,
with the goal of representing connections between portions of information. The example of mind mapping as following:
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Sutanto Windura, “Mind Map Langkah Demi Langkah”, 2008, p.16.
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Tony Buzan, The Speed Reading Book,2010, p.145
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Susi Purwoko, “Buku Pintar Mind Map”, Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2010. P.6.
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Sutanto Windura, BLI, Mind Map Langkah Demi Langkah, 2008, p. 16.
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Tony Buzan, The Speed Reading Book, 2010 p.145.
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