U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 7, No 3 (2018): U-JET

IMPLEMENTING CULSTERING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

Puti Ainun Rahmani (University of Lampung)
Cucu Sutarsyah (Unknown)
Ari Nurweni (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 May 2018

Abstract

Tujuan penelitaian ini adalah untuk  mengetahui 1) apakah ada peningkatan yang signifikan pada kemampuan siswa dalam   menulis   teks  deskriptif   dengan   menggunakan   teknik   clustering, dan 2) kesulitan apa saja yang dihadapi oleh siswa dalam menggunakan teknik clustering. Tes yang digunakan adalah tes menulis teks deskriptif dan kuisioner.Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah One Group Pre-test Post-test Design.. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan secara statistik antara pre-test dan post-test setelah penerapan teknik clustering dengan nilai signifikansi 0.05 Selanjutnya, kebanyakan siswa mengalami kesulitan dalam penggunaan kata sifat dan mengembangkan topik utama pada saat menggunakan teknik clustering untuk menulis paragraf deskriptifnya.The aims of this study were to investigate 1) if there was a statistically significant increase of the students’ ability   in   writing   descriptive   paragraphs   by   using clustering technique, and 2) the difficulties the students encountered in using the clustering technique. The writing test and questionnaires were used to collect the data. The design is One Group Pre-test Post-test.The result showed that there was a statistically significant increase of writing ability between the pre-test and the post-test after the implementing clustering technique with the significant level 0.05. Furthermore, the students most found it difficult to identify adjective and to develop the main idea in clustering the the topic for their descriptive writing.Keywords: clustering technique, descriptive, writing.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...