IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH BY USING DRAW LABEL CAPTION (DLC) AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE AT TEN GRADE OF SMA YP PGRI 2 MAKASSAR

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out whether the used of Draw Label Caption and Clustering technique improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph at ten grade of SMA YP PGRI 2 Makassar. The population of this research was ten Grade of SMA YP PGRI 2 Makassar in academic year 2021/2022. The sample of this research were 20 students and used purposed sampling technique in one class. The result of data analysis showed that there was significance different in students writing skill, where the students score in post-test was higher than the students’ score in pre-test (80.35> 69.6) and the result of t-test was higher that t-table (4.958> 2.093). Based on, the result of this research, it can be concluded that by combining Draw label caption and clustering can improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph at ten grade of SMA YP PGRI 2 Makassar.