THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CLUSTERING TEACHING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILL OF RECOUNT TEXT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BARATA SEMAGUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

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.