The Use of Mind Mapping to Improve Students' Writing Skill

This article discusses about the use of mind mapping to improve students' writing skills. English is one of the languages which is used by people to communicate with one another. Although English is not the language with the largest number of native language speakers, it becomes a lingua franca. Harmer (2001:16) defines a lingua franca as a language widely adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other's and where one or both speakers are using it as a second language. English is used in many aspects such as economics, entertainment, law, medicine, education, and so on. However English has become the most studied foreign language today.