The Use of Clustering Technique to Improve Students Writing Skill on Narrative Text for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Nusantara Tuntang in the Academic Year 2017/2018

Amaliah, Aam (2018) The Use of Clustering Technique to Improve Students Writing Skill on Narrative Text for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Nusantara Tuntang in the Academic Year 2017/2018. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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AamAmaliah 2017. “The Use of Clustering Technique to Improve Students’ writingskill on Narrative text for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Nusantara Tuntang in the Academic Year 2017/018. A Graduating paper. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. State Institute for Islamic Studies. Counselor: Mashlihatul Umami, M.A. This research focused on the use of clustering technique to improve students’ writing skill on narrative text in eighth grade students of SMP Nusantara Tuntang in the academic year 2017/2018. The objectives of the research are to describe the implementation and to know whether clustering technique could significantly improve students’ writing skill on narrative text. The method of the research used Classroom Action Research (CAR). There were two cycles each cycles comprised planning, implementing action, observing, and reflecting. The techniques of collecting the data are observation, test, and documentation. The result of the research shows that the pre-test score in cycle 1 is 63, 5 and post-test score is 69, 25.Meanwhile, the cycle 2 shows that the pre-test score is 70,5and post-test is 77. The cycle 1 shows the percentage of minimum passing grade in pre-test cycle 1 is 40% and post-test is 65%. While in the cycle 2, the minimum passing grade in pre-test is 80% and post-test is 100%. The result of t-calculation in cycle 1 (3,526) and cycle 2 (4,792) are higher than t-table (2,093). This indicates that clustering technique can improve students’ writing skill on narrative text in eighth grade students of SMP Nusantara Tuntang in the academic year 2017/2018.

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