THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' ABILITY IN WRITING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT AT SECOND GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 9 BANDAR LAMPUNG
Abstract
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan di dalam kemampuan menulis siswa dan aspek menulis manakah yang meningkat setelah implementasi teknik clustering. Penelitian ini mengadopsi pendekatan kuantitatif di mana menggunakan one group pretest-posttest. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas sebelas di SMA Negeri 9 Bandar Lampung dan XI IPA 7 yang terdiri dari 24 siswa. Tes menulis diberikan untuk mencari data. Data dianalisis menggunakan T-Test dengan nilai signifikansi p<0.05. Penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa T-Value (11.524) lebih besar dari T-Table (2.069). Hasil menunjukan bahwa ada peningkatan menulis siswa setelah implementasi teknik clustering. Aspek yang paling meningkat adalah konten dengan jumlah peningkatan 3.71 dan persentase 12.37%. Berdasarkan hasil di atas, hal ini bisa disimpulkan bahwa teknik clustering dapat diimplementasikan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menulis hortatory exposition text.
The objectives of this research were to find out whether there was improvement on students’ writing ability and which aspect of writing improved the most after the implementation of clustering technique. This study adopted a quantitative approach which used pretest and postest. The population of this research was the second-grade students of SMA Negeri 9 Bandar Lampung and XI IPA 7 which consisted of 24 students. Writing tests were applied to collect the data. The data were analysed by using repeated measure T-test with the significance p<0.05. The result of this research showed that t-value (11.524) was higher than t-table (2.069). It meant that there was improvement in students’ writing ability after the implementation of the technique. The aspect which improved the most was content aspect since the gain of the aspect improved to 3.71 with the percentage of 12.37%. In short, it can be concluded that clustering technique can be implemented in improving students’ hortatory exposition text writing ability.
Keywords: writing ability, clustering technique, hortatory exposition text
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