The Effectiveness of Teaching Writing Recount Text through Clustering Technique
Abstract
The aim of this study was to find out whether there was a statistically significant increase of students writing ability in recount texts after they were taught through clustering technique. This research was quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 31 students. The writing test was administrated as the instrument of the research. The result showed that there was a statistically significant increase of students writing ability with the significant level (0.00<0.05). This suggests that teaching writing using clustering technique facilitates the students to develop the ideas easily.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah ada peningkatan pada kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks recount setelah belajar melalui tehnik clustering. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Subjek penelitian sebanyak 31 siswa. Tes menulis digunakan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan signifikan secara statistik pada pencapaian kosakata siswa dengan tingkat signifiikan (0.00<0.05). Dapat disarankan bahwa pengajaran menulis menggunakan tehnik clustering dapat membuat siswa terlibat kreatif dalam pembelajaran dan dapat membantu mengembangkan ide dengan mudah.
Kata kunci: tehnik clustering, teks recount, menulis.
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