IMPLEMENTING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING VOCABULARY

Abstract

Tujuan Penelitian ini 1) menentukan adanya kenaikan signifikan pada prestasi siswa; 2) menyelidiki topik paling menarik; dan 3) menyelidiki masalah yang dihadapi siswa. Subjek penelitian adalah siswa kelas satu SMAN 1 Natar. Kelas X-2 sebagai kelas penelitian dan X-1 sebagai kelas percobaan. Penelitian ini menerapkan one way repeated measures anova dan t-test. Peningkatan nilai pretest dan postest adalah 29.56. Hasil t-test
menunjukkan t-ratio lebih tinggi dibandingkan t-table (39.134>2.042) dengan tahap signifikan p<0.05 dan signifikan 2-tailed p=0.000. Dapat dikatakan bahwa clustering technique layak untuk meningkatkan prestasi kosa kata siswa.

The objectives of this research are 1) to determine whether there is significant increase on students’ vocabulary achievement; 2) to investigate the most interesting topic; and 3) to investigate the problems faced by the students. The subject of the research was the first grade students of SMAN 1 Natar. Class X-2 was chosen as the experimental and class X-1 as the try out class. T-test and One way repeated measures anova were applied in this research. The increase between pretest and postest is 29.56. The result of t-test shows that t-ratio is higher than t-table (39.134>2.042) with the level of significant is p <0.05 and significant two-tail is p=0.000. It can be said that clustering technique is approriate to increase students’ vocabulary achievement.

Keywords : clustering technique, implementing, vocabulary