Integrating Mind Mapping (MM) and Three-Step-Interview (TSI) in Enhancing Students’ Writing Process in Foreign Language Setting

Abstract

There had been many studies conducted to investigate the benefits of Mind Mapping (MM) in the writing process and Three- Step-Interview (TSI ) in the speaking process, this study set out to investigate the effectiveness of an integrated technique which was the combination of MM and TSI in teaching writing. This technique was intended to facilitate the students with individual and group brainstorming practice and to help create another teaching procedure which could effectively solve the students' writing problem, especially in generating and organizing ideas in the pre-writing process. The subject of this study was 29 students who took Intermediate Writing subject at English Department Faculty of Education, Lampung University-Indonesia . The pretest and posttest were administered before and after the treatment. The data was analyzed by means of the paired sample t-test. The result shows that the students' writing ability significantly improved subsequent to the treatment. It also reveals that the most significant improvements were those of the writing content and organization aspects. The results are discussed in relation to relevant previous research findings.

Improvement to Students' Achievement in Procedural Text Composition Through Process Approach-Based Mind Mapping Employment

“…So, they could express their thoughts on a pre-selected topic, and they developed their ideas based on their understanding. This finding also in agreement with Flora (2019) who stated that Mind Mapping is an effective technique for boosting students' writing abilities by eliminating their problem with creating and organizing thoughts. In fact, the goal of this technique was to develop sufficient teaching procedures capable which were able to solve students' writing problems, particularly during the prewriting process.…”

“…Yunus and Chien (2016) stated that using Mind Mapping can help students map knowledge in a way that will help them be better to understand and retain information. Mind Mapping can be utilized to assist students to organize their thoughts by allowing individual brainstorming practice with graphics (Flora, 2019). Several studies have been widely employed Mind Mapping to teach English writing.…”