Improving student’s writing ability in report text through clustering technique at grade XI SMAN 1 Siabu

Riska, Yeni (2017) Improving student’s writing ability in report text through clustering technique at grade XI SMAN 1 Siabu. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is talking about improving students’ writing ability in report text through clustering technique at grade XI SMAN 1 Siabu, the student problems in writing ability are the students don’t have ideas to write, the students can’t develop idea to write, the students don’t have interest in writing English and the English teacher don’t have appropriate technique. The purpose of this research to describe the students achievement in writing report text and to identify the factors which influence students writing report text by using clustering technique at grade XI SMAN 1 Siabu. The method is classroom action research by implementing the Kemmis and Mc Taggart designed which were consisted four steps. Those are plan, action, observe, and reflect. In addition, to solve the writing report text problems, the researcher applied clustering technique. The participants of the research are all of the students in the classroom XI IPA3 SMAN 1 Siabu that are consisted 28 students’. The instruments of collecting data are test and observation. The techniques of analysis data are mean score and t-test. Based on the research result, showed the improvement of the students’ writing ability in report text through the implementation clustering technique. The students’ mean score showed the improvement of the students writing report text. The first test result in the first cycle was 58.92 ( 25 % ) and the second test in the second cycle was 83.28 ( 89.28 %). The mean score of the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. The application of clustering technique could be improved the students writing ability in report text at grade XI IPA 3 SMAN 1 Siabu, it means that hypothesis could be accepted.

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