THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE TO TEACH VOCABULARY TO THE STUDENTS AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADEOF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH GISTING IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

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ABSTRACT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE TO TEACH VOCABULARY TO THE STUDENTS AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADEOF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH GISTING IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018 By: Sri Astuti Andayani Vocabulary is very important for people to use language, without vocabulary people cannot develop the language skills namely, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The objective of this research to know whether there is an effectiveness of using clustering technique to teach vocabulary to the students at the first semester of the tenth grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Gisting in the academic year of 2017/2018. The methodology of this research was quasi experimental design with the treatment held in three meetings, 2 x 45 minutes for each. The population of this research was tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Gisting. The total sample in this research was 70 students’ that were taken from two classes, X IPS 1 and X IPS 2. In collecting the data, the reseacher used instruments, pre-test and post-test. The isntrument of this research was vocabulary test. After giving the post-test, the reseacher analyzed the data by using SPSS to compute independent sample t-test. After the researcher analyzed the data by using independent sample t-test, it was found that the result of Sig. (2-tailed) of the equal variance was 0.000 < α = 0.05. It means that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. Based on the computation, it can be concluded that there was effectiveness of using clustering technique to teach vocabulary to the students at the first semester of the tenth grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Gisting in the academic year of 2017/2018. Key Word : clustering technique, experimental design, vocabular