THE APPLICATION OF MIND MAPPING TO TEACH READING OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

English is still considered as a difficult subject, such as in the narrative text that combines reading and writing skills. The success of teaching is determined by the level of acceptance of students' understanding of the material. Students will learn with good interest if the teacher can teach in a fun way. It means that the teacher must determine creative and innovative learning by packaging the material in a simple but easy way for students to understand. This article aims to show the effect of an interactive teaching method. With the concept of the mind map in understanding the narrative text in English subjects. The data collection method used to complete this article is a literature review. It was done by investigating several articles or research related to the application of the mind mapping method in teaching narrative text to produce a descriptive analysis that through mind mapping, it can increase students' enthusiasm in learning English. Mind mapping can help students in indentifying the information of narrative text in the students' language. Therefore, it made the students comprehend the text easily.