IMPROVING THE VIII-B STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF RECOUNT TEXT THROUGH THE USE OF CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE AT SMPN 5 TANGGUL

Abstract

Then, it was continued to the second cycle. The second cycle was conducted in five meetings. The process of the second cycle were giving an example of recount text, asking the students to identify the generic structure and the language feature of the text given, introducing new vocabularies, showing the cluster of the text, asking the students to make a cluster and develop it into recount text, giving feedback to the students writing and asking them to rewrite or revise their work. The actions given in the second cycle resulted in the students’ active participation reached 88.10%, the students’ mean score reached 72.29, and the precentage of the students who got good and excellent category of writing achivement reached to 76.19%. It means that the second cycle reached the target of this research. Since the result of writing achievement test and students’ active participation in the second cycle had achieved the target requirement in this research, the action was stopped. Based on the above result, it can be concluded that the implementation of clustering technique could improve the VIII-B students’ writing achievement of recount text. Clustering technique is expected to be beneficial model as prewriting technique for the English Teacher and the students. The English teacher is suggested to implement clustering technique to improve the students writing achievement. Furthermore, the students are expected to practice writing a lot using clustering technique and enrich their vocabularies to improve their writing achievement.