Abstract
Reading is one of the important skills which should be mastered by students. At the same time, the students have difficulties learning a foreign language. Also, it is believed that every student has a different capacity for learning a foreign language. Therefore, this research aims to find out whether there is a significant difference in students’ reading ability after the implementation of mind mapping in learning reading comprehension and to find out the difficulties of students in learning reading comprehension through mind mapping as the media. In collecting the data the researcher used a reading comprehension test and interview, and the data were analyzed using SPSS program.The result of this research showed that the students’ scores have increased and the T-test revealed that the results are significant; t (two-sided p ) =001 at a significance level of 0.05 (p=001, p<0.05). The data shows that the degree of freedom is 27, the t-value is 6.091 and the t-table is 2.051 with a significance level of 5%, which means the T-Value is higher. It can be concluded that there is a significance improvement between pre-test scores and post-test scores of students’ reading comprehension ability after implementation of the mind mapping technique in teaching reading comprehension.
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