Abstract:
English is an international language. In Indonesia, English is the first
foreign language which is taught in schools. Therefore, there are four skills in
learning English that must be acquired by students. Those are reading, speaking,
writing and listening. Writing is one of the four language skills that are very
important in learning English, so the students must learn it. Besides, writing is
very important because the first purpose of learning English language is we can
write English language. However, in fact the students are afraid to say English
word even they are in speaking class. Therefore, the media used by teacher must
be appropriate for them. By using clustering technique, it can help to motivate the
students in write English. Besides, the students’ will get new experience in
learning writing and they will enjoy.The purpose of this research is to find out
whether teaching writing using clustering technique is effective or not in teaching
writing.
In this research the researcher took 61 students as the sample. As the
experimental group, the researcher used class VIII B which consist of 30 students.
Meanwhile, as the control group, the researcher took 31 students of class VIII F.
Then the researcher gave pre-test and post-test to both classes. The researcher
taugh writing by using clustering technique to experimental group and taugh
writing in common way to the control group. The researcher then statistically
analyzed the data by using t-test polled variance.
After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that teaching writing by
using clustering techniques is effective. As the fact, themean score of
experimental group is higher than mean score of control group (69.20>62.71). To
see whether the hypothesis was accepted or rejected, the researcher used SPSS
(Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 16.00 for windows and the result ofSig.
(2-tailed) was 0.015, and it was lower than 0.05.So, it can be stated that the
hypotesis “the use of clustering technique in teaching writing to the eight grade
students’ of SMP Barata Semagung Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014 is
effective” is accepted.
