The Background of the Study

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E. The Significance of the Study

The findings of this study were expected to be useful and relevant: 1. Theoretically, to develop the information about clustering technique for teaching writing descriptive text. 2. Practically, for the teachers as a reference to use clustering technique in teaching writing descriptive text, for the students to increase their comprehension in writing descriptive text and for other researchers as a reference in doing further research. 40

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

The result of calculation t-test formula shows that the score of t-observed 3.003 the score of t-table 2.024. It means that clustering technique significantly affects the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. Through clustering technique, the students are being able to express their ideas easily and put them into such a good descriptive text. Thus, it can be concluded that the null hypothesis Ho is rejected and the alternative hypothesis Ha is accepted.

B. Suggestion

In relation to the conclusion, suggestions are stated as the following: 1. Since this research is limited to investigation of the Clustering Technique on writing and how the Clustering Technique can be developed is not known, it is suggested that a research should be done on writing development. 2. The English teachers are suggested to apply clustering technique to improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text, the students are suggested to use clustering technique in order to increase their ability in writing descriptive text and other researchers are suggested to apply clustering technique in conducting the further research with other skill or genre. 43 Appendix A THE PRE-TEST AND POST-TEST FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUP Instructions: 1. Write your name and class in the top left of your answer sheet. 2. You are expected to write a descriptive text about Toba Lake based on your own knowledge and with your own words. 3. The range is about 3 paragraphs or more. 4. The time is 60 minutes. 44 Appendix B 4.1 The Scores of Pre-Test and Post-Test Table 4.1.1 Experimental Group No Students’ Initial Name Score Pre –Test Post –Test 1 ASG 56 88 2 DFA 69 94 3 DWH 44 62 4 EKP 50 81 5 FD 56 75 6 GNT 62 81 7 HBG 56 75 8 ILN 62 88 9 JHS 56 69 10 KST 56 75 11 LSP 62 75 12 NAS 69 94 13 PAM 56 62 14 RW 50 75 15 RAAS 44 81 16 SYP 62 75 17 VBH 50 75 18 WH 62 81 19 YBB 56 94 20 YAS 56 75 Total 1134 1575 Mean

56.7 78.75