Mind Mapping Method Based on Information Scheme: Alternative for students with reading comprehension difficulties

摘要

This research offers an alternative reading comprehension learning model to overcome students' difficulties in understanding the text content by implementing mind mapping method based on information scheme. This research uses an experiment single subject method with reversal design (A-B-A-B) which provides repetition of treatment to the research subject. The subject of this study are two students of class eleventh senior high school who had reading comprehension difficulties. The students have the obstacle to understanding the referent of the sentence and the content of the text. The results showed that students' reading comprehension skills had increased. This is indicated by the accuracy of determining the referents of the pronouns in the sentence; accuracy of determining information in the text; and the accuracy of determining the main idea of the text.