| dc.description.abstract | Indonesian students, as EFL learners, often experience problems in English
writing especially the difficulties to generate the ideas. They have to do the
prewriting activity before doing the writing process to make it easier to be done. To
help the students’ problem in generating the ideas, the teacher needs to give a
prewriting technique.
Based on the above reason, the researcher used the clustering technique in
teaching writing to the students. It is one of the prewriting techniques that can help
the students to find the ideas by drawing some words by using balloons and
connecting each word by using lines. By using the clustering technique, the students
can know the relation of each word, so they can generate the ideas easily. The
clustering technique can help the students to solve their problems in generating the
ideas. By using it, the students can find some words related to their writing, so they
can prepare the vocabularies before doing the writing process. The students are asked
to do the prewriting first. They had to find the words related to the topics by using
clustering technique.
This research was conducted to investigate whether or not there was a
significant effect of using clustering technique on the writing achievement of the
eighth year students at SMPN 2 Cluring Banyuwangi. The respondents of this
research were the eighth year students of SMPN 2 Cluring Banyuwangi in the
2011/2012 academic year. The researcher determined the two classes by using lottery.
The total number of the respondent was 78 students, divided into the experimental
group and the control group. The experimental group consisted of 39 students and the control group consisted of 39 students. After determining the experimental and
control class, then the researcher gave the same pretest to both classes. After that, the
experimental class was taught writing by using clustering technique as the prewriting
technique, while the control class was taught writing without the clustering technique.
After the students were taught for 3 meetings, they were given the same posttest of
writing.
The primary data of this research were collected from the post test of writing
test. The main data of this research were analyzed by using ANCOVA (Analysis of
Covariance). The result of this research showed that there was a significant effect of
using the clustering technique on the eighth year students’ writing achievement. It
was proven by the value of significant column of ANCOVA by using SPSS, the
result was 0.003. It was lower than 0.05. Based on the explanation above, it could be
concluded that there was a significant effect of using the clustering technique on the
eight year students’ writing achievement at SMPN 2 Cluring Banyuwangi. Based on
the result of this research, it is recommended to the English teacher to use the
clustering technique in teaching writing because it can help the students to generate
the ideas for developing them into a recount paragraph. | en_US |
