THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT(A PRE EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA DARUL FALAH CLUWAK PATI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014)

Writing is one of tools to communicate each other. It is a language skill that people have and use to express their ideas or opinion. Writing is one of language skill that should be learned by the students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati. Based on syllabus the students are required to learn some genre types such as Narrative, Report, Descriptive, Spoof, Analytical Exposition, Hortatory Exposition, etc. In fact, most of the students have problem related to writing abililty. They are still confused of how toorganize their ideas and develop their idea into paragraph. The Objective of this research is to find out whether there is significant difference between the ability of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati in academic yeaar 2013/2014 in writing narrative text before and after being taught by using clustering technique. In this research, the researcher used quantitative experimental research as design of the research. The researcher used one group with pre-test and post-test. Population of the research was the tenth grade students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati in academic year 2013/2014. The researcher took class X C as the sample. The data were collected through written test. Based on the analyzing data, it was found that the writing ability of narrative text of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati in academic year 2013/2014 before being taught by using clustering technique was categorized sufficient. The mean of pre-test is 58.96 and standard deviation is 8.69. while the writing ability of narrative text of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati in academic year 2013/2014 after being taught by using clustering technique was categorized good. The mean of post-test is 71.21 and standard deviation is 7.36. The calculation of t-obtained (to) is 10.60 in the level of significance 0.05, t-table (tt) is 2.052. Because t-obtained is higher than t-table (to>tt), it is mean that there is dignificant difference between the ability of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati in academic yeaar 2013/2014 in writing narrative text before and after being taught by using clustering technique. Based on the data above, the researcher conclude that clustering technique is effective to improve the writing ability of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati in academic year 2013/2014, it can be seen from the data that the ability of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Falah Cluwak Pati in academic year 2013/2014 in writing narrative text after being taught by using Clustering technique is better before being taught by using Clustering technique. From the result above, the researcher suggested to the English teacher to use Clustering technique in teaching writingg narrative text, because this technique helps the students organize their ideas before they start to write. A similar research can also be conducted to improve the other skills, such as reading, speaking, and listening. It is also possible to apply this technique to the other genre types, such as descriptive, procedure, etc