The effect of clustering technique on students' descriptive text writing skill at X Grade MAN 5 Mandailing Natal

Arwida, Heni (2022) The effect of clustering technique on students' descriptive text writing skill at X Grade MAN 5 Mandailing Natal. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is intended to investigate the Effect of Custering Technique on Students’Descriptive Text Writing Skill at X Grade MAN 5 Mandailing Natal. The problem that faced by students in writing Descriptive Text were: 1) Students can not generate and organize the ideas, 2) Students are lack of vocabulary, 3) Students are confused how to start writing, 4) Students are confused about tenses. The purposes of this research were to know the information about students’ descriptive text writing skill before using clustering technique, to know the information about students’ descriptive text writing skill after using clustering technique and to examine whether there is significant effect on students’ descriptive text writing skill using clustering technique at X grade MAN 5 Mandailing Natal. This research uses quantitave research by using experimental method, true experimental design was used in this research. The population were all of the students at X grade MAN 5 Mandailing Natal. The sample were X MIPA 1 as experimental group that consisted of 24 students and X MIPA 2 as control group that consisted of 24 students. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test in essay test form and analyzed by using Independent Sample T-test. The result of this research showed that the mean score of experimental group was higher than the mean score of control group after using clustering technique. The mean score of experimental group after using clustering technique was 74.29 and mean score of control group after using conventional method was 56.08. It can be concluded that clustering technique is very useful for writing descriptive text. In addition, tcount > ttable (6.985 > 2.012). It means Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. There is significant effect on students’ descriptive text writing skill in learning by using clustering technique at X grade students of MAN 5 Mandailing Natal.

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