Tohari, Ahmad (2018) Improving Students’ Writing Skill In Descriptive Text Through The Implementation of Clustering Technique at The Tenth Grade of SMA N 1 Punggur Central Lampung. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the students’ writing skill at SMA N 1 Punggur Central Lampung which was found in writing descriptive text and to know what extend of the clustering technique could help the students in learning process. The writer triedto attest that clustering technique could be one of a teaching technique to improve the students’ writing skill especially in descriptive text.

In this research, researcher conductedclassroom action research (CAR) which wasdone in two cycles. Each cycle consistedof planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The subject of this research was 25 students in X.4 class of SMA N 1 Punggur Central Lampung. In collecting data, the researcher used essay-test (pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2), observation and documentation. The researchwasconducted collaboratively with an English teacher of SMA N 1 Punggur Central Lampung.In the research, thestudents wrote descriptive text about their class, school, family, pets and their favorite things.

Regarding to the researchresult which was taken from observation and test, it could be inferred that there weresignificant improvementsfrom cycle 1 to cycle 2. The averagescore of post-test 1 was 72.4 with percentage of students’ successfulness was 52%. Next to cycle 2 the average score was 76.2 with percentage of successfulness was 80%. It indicated that indicator of success of the research has been achieved at least 70% students was passed the Minimum StandardCriteria and it is obvious that by implementingClustering Technique could improve students’ skill in writing descriptivetext. It meantthat the research was successful.Key Word: Writing Descriptive Text, Clustering Technique.

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