IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY THROUGH CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE AT THE TENTH GRADE OF SMAN 8 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2021/2022
Keywords:
Classroom Action Research, Students’ Writing Ability, Clustering TechniqueAbstract
This research is aimed to improve students’ writing ability through Clustering Technique at the tenth grade of SMAN 8 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2021/2022. The subject of this research was the students of X IPS 3 with total number 32 students. This research was conducted in two cycles by using classroom action research. This research focused to improve students’ learning activity and the students’ writing ability. In the cycle 1, most students were not confident and passive, also the class condition uncontrolled, the mean score of students’ learning activity was 6.75 with the criteria less active. In cycle 2, the students showed positive and significant improvement. The students become more confident in the class activity and became active participant in joining the class. The mean score of students’ learning activity in cycle 2 was 7.86 with criteria active. The improvement of the students’ writing ability could be seen from the average score of preliminary research was 55.75 of 8 students who passed the minimum mastery criterion with the percentage 25% while in cycle 1 was 70.59 of 17 students who passed the minimum mastery criterion with the percentage 46.87% and in cycle 2 was 79.93 of 27 students who passed the minimum mastery criterion with the percentage 84.37%. From the result of analyzing data, it could be summarized that applying Clustering Technique can improve students’ learning activities and students’ writing ability.
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