IMPROVING STUDENTS' DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ACHIEVEMENT BY USING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE AT SMA IBA PALEMBANG

Chayatie Ambar Sari, Dian Erlina, Husnaini Husnaini

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This study aimed to find whether there was a significant improvement in students' descriptive writing achievement and whether there was a significant difference between students who were taught with clustering technique and who were not. A quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test non-equivalent was used in this study. 40 students were sampled, with 20 students from X.1 as the experimental class and 20 students from X.2 as the control class. The results of the analysis showed the p-output of the paired sample t-test was 0.000 and the t-output was -9.109 which indicated there was a significant improvement. Then the result of independent sample t-test was 0.005 which lower than 0.05 with t-output of 2.999 which indicates there was a significant difference. Based on the results of this study, the researcher suggests that clustering techniques can be implement as one of the appropriate technique in improving students’ descriptive writing achievement.

Keywords: writing skill, descriptive writing achievement, clustering technique


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