THE TEACHING OF WRITING A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE FOR BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of writing this paper is to discuss the implementation of clustering technique in teaching descriptive text. The low students’ ability in writing descriptive text is caused by the students are unable to develop their idea in writing descriptive text. The descriptive text is  a kind of factual text which consists of generic structure and language features. The descriptive text is used to describe a person, place or thing that describe the detail of the person, place or thing in term of shape, taste, smell, sound. Thus, the reader can imagine the object which is described in the text. There are three phases in teaching descriptive text in using clustering technique; they are pre- teacing, whilst- teaching, and post- teaching activity. Pre- teaching activity is the lecturer’s activity before teaching the instructional material. Whilst- teaching activity is the main activity in teaching process, the lecturer teaches the instructional material by elaborating the students’ opinion about the topic of instructional material which their opinion is collected through clustering technique, the students are involved in teaching and learning process and asked to write descriptive text based on the topic given. Moreover, post- teaching activity is the final phase which the lecturer directs the students to conclude the instructional material which has been taught. The writer hopes this paper will give significance for lecturer in teaching descriptive text by using clustering technique so it can enhance the students’ ability in writing descriptive text.

Key Words: Teaching Writing, Descriptive Text, Clustering Technique