Banyuwangi in the 20152016 academic year had never been taught writing recount text by using Clustering technique, the researcher was interested to
conduct a research administering clustering as prewriting activity to know or prove whether or not it has a significant effect on students’ writing
achievement. The research conducted to investigate the effect of using clustering
technique on recount text writing achievement of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Siliragung Banyuwangi. The purpose of this research was to
know whether or not there was a significant effect of using clustering technique on the eighth grade students’ recount text writing achievement. The researcher
used clustering technique. This research used two classes: experimental and controlled class. The new treatment was given to the experimental class and the
control class was taught without clustering technique. Based on the explanations above, the researcher was interested to
conduct experimental research entitled “The Effect of Using Clustering
Technique on the Eight h Grade Students’ Recount Text Writing Achievement
at SMP Negeri 1 Siliragung Banyuwangi in the 20152016 Academic Year ”.
1.2 Problem of the Research
Based on the background of the research above, the problem of the research is formulated as follows:
“Is there any significant effect of using Clustering technique on the eighth grade students’ recount text writing achievement at SMP Negeri 1 Siliragung
Banyuwangi in the 20152016 academic year ?”
1.3 Objective of the Research
Based on the research problem, the objective of this study is to investigate whether there is a significant effect of using Clustering technique on
the eighth grade students’ recount text writing achievement at SMP Negeri 1 Siliragung Banyuwangi in the 20152016 academic year.
1.4 Significance of the Research
It has been the requirement that every research must have the significance not only to the writer, but also to the others who has the same
interest in the research. Therefore, the findings of this study are expected to be useful for the following people:
a. The English Teacher
The result of this research is expected to be used as a consideration to also include clustering as well as technique in teaching writing knowing that
clustering is able to make students write creatively.
b. The Students
The students are expected to be able to write creatively not only on writing recount text but also on the other texts and other purposes. In order to
make the students write creatively in their daily life, clustering can be the techniques which will guide the students develop writing successfully.
Hopefully, clustering will be able to increase the students’ skill in writing better
than before.
c. The Future Researcher
The research finding will be useful for future researchers as a reference to carry out further research on the same topic by conducting other research
design dealing with the use of clustering technique to the different level of the students.
CHAPTER 2.REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
