The result of Interview

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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS

A. Description of Data

1. Findings of Preliminary Study

a. The result of Interview

Pre interview of this research was held on Wednesday, November 10 th 2010 started at 08.00 A.M. until 08.45 A.M. during interview, the writer asked some question to the teacher. The questions are about the general condition in teaching learning process of English material especially in writing subject, and then the writer asked about the difficulties faced by the students in writing, and then about their participation, and the strategy that used by the teacher in writing descriptive text. Furthermore, the writer asked about the clustering technique. In general, teaching learning process was conducted as usual. In which there were pre activities like brainstorming, while activities, and post activities. In writing subject, the teacher used some activities such as grouping and individual work. The next question is about some difficulties faced by the students. The teacher gives some arguments, which are as it knows that writing is one of difficult skill among other skills to be 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