The Use of Clustering Technique to Improve Students Writing Skill in SMAN 1 Momunu

Writing skill is one the skill in English. Writing is the most difficult skill to be learnt, because it needs hard thinking in producing words, sentences, and paragraph at the same time. The teacher stated that the students' English skills at this high school were very low and very weak in writing. Based on the description above, this research aimed to find out is there any improvement students writing skill in SMAN 1 MOMUNU? This research was quantitative. The data in this research was collected quantitatively by using test. This research was basically used one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this research was the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Momunu. The sample of this research was XI IIS 4 which consisted of 10 students. The instrument of this research was test. The data were analyzed by compare t-counted with t-table. The result of the research showed there is improvement student writing skill by used scanning technique in SMAN 1 MOMUNU”. Where the improving as much 7%. That t-value was higher than t-table (4.745>2, 101) and the value of significant level was 0.00