THE USE OF CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT: A CASE OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 10 SEMARANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

Hikmawati, Laila Inggil.2022.The Use of Clustering Technique in Teaching
Writing Descriptive Text : A Case of The Second Year Students at SMP
N 10 Semarang in The Academic Year 2021/2022. Final Projec,
English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts
Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Ngasbun
Egar,M.Pd., Advisor ll : Siti Musarokah,S.Pd.,M.Hum.
Keywords: Writing, Clustering Technique, Descriptive Text
Students gain receptive and productive language skills. Listening and reading are
receptive skills. Speaking and writing are productive languages. Writing is an
important linguistic skill. Productive language skill means language has output as
language learning‟s outcome. Because of that, when students are writing, students
need to express their thoughts to create a written deliverable. The objectives of the
research are: 1) to find out the ability in writing descriptive text of the students
taught without using clustering technique, 2) to find out the ability in writing
descriptive text of the students taught using clustering technique, 3) to find out
whether or not there is a significant difference of the writing ability in descriptive
text between the students taught using clustering technique and those taught
without using clustering technique. This quasi-experimental research included
pre- and post-tests. One group is treated in quasi-experimental quantitative
research. This study clusters descriptive language. This study was carried out at
SMP N 10 Semarang, which has a population of class VIII students. This study
used a quasi-experimental approach with pre- and post-tests. The students were
given a pre-test, a treatment, and a post-test. It took the writer four meetings to
collect data. In this study, the researcher employed VIII C as the experimental
class of 31 students and VIII D as the control class of 32 students. A test was
conducted to determine the extent to which students' writing skills improved
without being taught by clustering technique. The students received traditional
treatment from an initial average value of 62.34 to a final average value of 60.59.
The descriptive test showed that the average value of the class that was not
provided treatment decreased by 1.75 points.