learnt by the students. The students usually feel difficult in generating their ideas into a paragraph. It may be caused of lack
of vocabulary, grammatical understanding, and choosing suitable word in a sentence.
The next question is about the strategy used by the teacher in writing subject, and asking about the clustering technique. The
teacher said that she never used clustering technique in writing subject, but she has known about clustering technique. She argued
that clustering technique could be an effective strategy in teaching writing because it could facilitate the students in generating their
ideas. It also might be able to improve students’ ability in writing. The conclusion of th
e interview in term of students’ difficulties in writing was the eighth grade students of MTs. Darul
Ma’arif Jakarta have problems in writing in term of generating ideas, organizing ideas into paragraph, and grammatical function.
see appendix 1b
b. The result of pre questionnaire
The pre questionnaire was conducted to know the students’
response about English lesson especially in writing skill. The questionnaire was given to the eighth year students of MTs. Darul
Ma’arif Jakarta on Wednesday, November 10
th
2010. The questionnaire had five questions, the description as follows:
1 The feeling toward in English lesson
The result of questionnaire showed that 10 of students like English very much, 56.6 of students like English lesson,
26.6 students felt fair to the English lesson, and 6.6 of students did not like English lesson. It can be shown the
conclusion that the most students of MTs. Darul Ma’arif Jakarta like English lesson
2 The most difficult skill in English skill
The result showed that 50 of students assumed that writing was the most difficult skill; meanwhile 33.3 of the
students consider speaking was difficult skill to learn. It shows that writing was the most difficult skill to be learnt by some
students.
3 The feeling toward teaching learning process of writing
The result showed that 50 of students felt fair to writing skill, and 33.3 of the students like writing skill. From
the data presented above it was indicated that some students should be given the motivation and innovation in studying in
order to change their feeling become interest in writing class.
4 The feeling if the students write using English
It showed that 83.3 of the students got difficulties in writing skill; Meanwhile 16.6 of the students felt fair dealing
with writing.
5 The teacher’s style when teaching writing
The result was 50 of the students felt interested in the way of the teacher teach, 36.6 of the students felt fair about
it.
The conclusion in term of writing problems was their class still got difficult in writing skill and need improvement to reach the
Minimum Mastery Criterion-Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM. see appendix 3a
c. The result of pre-test
