about the implementation of clustering technique in teaching descriptive writing.
a. The result of Post-Interview
This interview was held on December, 4
th
2010 after accomplishing the second cycle. It was started at 08.30 A.M until
09.00 A.M. the writer asked some question to the teacher. It was begun with the general condition of the students during
implementing the action. As far as she looked, clustering technique was good enough to be implemented in teaching descriptive writing.
They looked enthusiast and spirit during teaching learning process. Although still there were a few students were not paid attention to
the teacher. They felt easier to write their draft because of this technique. In general, the students’ participation was good because
the activity in the classroom involved the students. Other question was about the difficulties faced by the
students and its solution in implementing clustering technique during implementing the action. It was observed that the most of the
students felt difficult in the grammatical process of writing, besides they felt difficult in generating and organizing their ideas in the
paragraph. So, the teacher should give more motivation to the students to study hard. The teacher should gave them a perspective
that writing is a skill, its need practice as much as possible. The last category was about the opinion of clustering
technique, she said that clustering technique was a good technique in teaching descriptive writing, it can made students felt easier in
writing descriptive paragraph. So, it can be an alternative technique in teaching writing. Furthermore, it was able to improve students’
writing ability. It can be seen in the final score that there was significant differences before the technique implemented in
teaching descriptive writing.
From the explanation above, it could be conclude from the post interview that the teacher gave a positive response toward the
implementation of clustering technique in teaching descriptive writing. In addition, clustering technique gave a good impact for
improvement of the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. see appendix 2b
b. The Result of Post-Questionnaire