THE EFFECT OF CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE TO THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF SMKN 1 KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015


Author (Penulis)

HENI HERAWATI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

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11.1.01.08.0086

Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is one of four skills which have to be mastered in learning English as second or foreign language. However, in fact, students often face some difficulties in learning English especially in creating a text. The problems are about difficulty to generate ideas, grammatical structure, mechanical writing, and lack on vocabulary. On the other hand, the difficulty to generate ideas is the most common problem. Dealing with the problem, it is needed to use an appropriate technique in teaching learning process of writing that can assist them to solve those problems. The technique is clustering techniques. This research is aimed to find out the effect of clustering techniques to the students’ writing ability to the tenth grade students of SMKN 1 Kediri and to find out the students’ response when clustering techniques applied to the student’s writing ability to the tenth grade students of SMKN 1 Kediri. In order to get and analyze the data, this research uses quantitative research. It uses the form of number that was analyzed by using statistical formula. In this case, there are two means scores; the means scores are pre-test and post-test. Then the researcher computes t-score to know the effect of the clustering teachniques to the students’ writing ability. Technique of this research is experimental research. It is a research to know the effect of a variable to the other variable. This research is conducted in SMKN 1 Kediri on 7th April and 31st May 2015. The subject is X TPM 1 class. It consists of 29 male students. Clustering technique is effective to be used in teaching writing especially in the tenth grade students of SMKN 1 Kediri in academic year 2014/2015. It is proved by the result of t-score (6,15) that is higher than t-table in the level of significance 1% (2,763). Besides that, the students’ questionnaire proved that more than 50% students agree that clustering technique is the easier and more interested way to assist them in generating ideas. So, Null Hypothesis (Ho) of this research was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) of this research was accepted. Based on the analyzed data, the researcher is also concluded that there is a very significant effect of clustering techniques to the tenth grade students’ writing ability of SMKN 1 Kediri in academic year 2014/2015. Keyword: Writing Ability, Clustering Techniques, Generating Ideas

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PUBLISHED

2015-12-21

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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