The Effect of Applying Clustering Technique on Students’ Achievement in Writing Narrative Text at MTs Aisyah

Abstract

This study was conducted to describe the effect of using applying clustering technique on students‟ achievement in writing narrative text at MTs Aisyah Medan. The objectives of this study to investigas the significant effect of applying clustering technique on students‟ achievement in writing narrative text . The population and sample was the eighth grade students of academic year 2014/2015 of MTs Aisyah Medan who consisted of 120 students eight parallel classes. While the sample were taken two classes VIII 1 and VIII 2 amount 50 students by using purposive sampling. They are divided into two groups, 25 students for experimental groups and 25 students for control groups. The experimental group which was applied in class VIII-1 was taught by technique clustering , while the control group which was applied in class VIII-2 with taught with short story. The research was based on experimental to collect the data that using descriptive quantitative method. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The findings showed that t-observed= 2.88 with the degree freedom (df) 88 88 (Nx + Ny – 2 or 25 + 25 - 2 = 48). In the line of 48 showed that t-table was 2.01. based on the data > or 3.221 > 2.01 so, the finding of the study indicated that students‟ achievement in teaching narrative text using clustering technique was more significant than those using short story