xix Ruetten said that clustering is making a visual map of the ideas and this way
allows the students to think creatively.
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Based on the writer’s experience when she did the observation on SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat, in teaching learning process the English teacher did not use the
clustering technique in teaching writing especially narrative text. Students did not
understand clearly about narrative text, how to identify the generic structures and the linguistic features of narrative text and how to write it. The teacher used the
old technique in teaching narrative Grammar Translation Method she only give the text then, identified the linguistic features and the generic structures and
finally the teacher gave the simple past tense formula to make the students easier in writing narrative text. But in fact this technique made them bored and difficult
to understand the material when teaching learning process conducted. Because of these problems that have mentioned above the writer takes a
title of this “Skripsi” “The Effectiveness of Clustering Technique in Teaching Writing of Narrative Text at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA PGRI 56
Ciputat.”
B. Statement of the Problems
Based on the background presented above, the writer plans to analyze the use of clustering technique in teaching writing of narrative text at the tenth grade
of students of SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat. The general question of this research: “is the clustering technique effective in teaching writing of narrative text?”
The main problem of this research can be formulated as follows: 1.
How are the instructional activities conducted by the English teacher in teaching narrative text?
2. How well the students’ improvement in learning writing of narrative
text using clustering technique?
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edition, p.10
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C. Scope and Limitation of the Study
In writing this “Skripsi” the writer focuses on tenth grade of SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat at the second semester 20092010 academic year, and to make a
description of this “Skripsi” deeper the problems will be limited in: a the implementation of using clustering technique in teaching writing of narrative text,
b the students’ improvement in learning writing of narrative text using clustering technique.
D.
Objectives of the Study
In this section the writer would like to mention the objectives of this study as follows:
1. To know the effectiveness of using clustering technique in teaching
writing of narrative text. 2.
To analyze the students’ average improvement after using clustering technique in learning writing of narrative text.
E.
Hypothesis of the Study
The statistic hypothesis states: 1.
Alternative Hypothesis Ha: there is significance difference between the students’ achievement in writing of narrative text using clustering
technique and without using clustering technique at SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat.
2. Null Hypothesis Ho: there is no significance difference between the
students’ achievement in writing of narrative text using clustering
xxi technique and without using clustering technique at SMA PGRI 56
Ciputat.
F. Significance of the Study
