The Effect of Roundtable and Clustering Teaching Techniques and Students’ Personal Traits on Students’ Achievement in Descriptive Writing

Megawati Sinaga

doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.6p.69

Abstract

The Objectives of this paper as an experimental research was to investigate the effect of Roundtable and Clustering teaching techniques and students’ personal traits on students’ achievement in descriptive writing. The students in grade ix of SMP Negeri 2 Pancurbatu 2016/2017 school academic year were chose as the population of this research.. The research design was experimental research by using factorial design 2x2. The students were divided into two experimental groups. The experimental group was treated by using Roundtable teaching technique and control group was treated by using Clustering teaching technique. The students are classified into the introvert and extrovert personal traits by conducting the questionnaire and the students’ achievement in descriptive writing was measured by using writing test, namely ‘Analytic Scoring’ by Weigle. The data were analyzed by applying two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) at the level of significance α = 0.05. The result reveals that (1) students’ achievement in descriptive writing taught by using Roundtable teaching technique was higher than that taught by Clustering teaching technique, with Fobs = 4.59>Ftab=3.97, (2) students’ achievement in descriptive writing with introvert personal trait was higher than that with extrovert personal traits with Fobs=4.90 Ftable=3.97, (3) there is interaction between teaching techniques and personal traits on students’ achievement in descriptive writing with Fobs =6,58 Ftable=3.97. After computing the Tuckey-Test, the result showed that introvert students got higher achievement if they were taught by using Roundtable teaching technique while extrovert students got higher achievement if they were taught by using Clustering teaching technique.

Highlights

Writing is more than a medium of communication
After computing the Tuckey-Test, the result showed that introvert students got higher achievement if they were taught by using Roundtable teaching technique while extrovert students got higher achievement if they were taught by using Clustering teaching technique
In findings of this study indicate that introvert students are better in their achievement in descriptive writing that is shown by total mean of both personal traits on the average

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Introduction

Writing is more than a medium of communication. It means that writing is not just the way to communicate to each other and as means of ideas and emotional expressions (Raymond, 1980). The word becomes permanent by writing, and as the expanding of the various memory of human being. By writing the people can see what are in someone thought because it is visible and permanent whereas spoken words disappear after they are spoken. Different from spoken words, writing quality can be examined and tested. Writing is a way of remembering and a good way to do the communication because by writing, the writer really thinks about what to be communicated by writing it

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