THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLUSTERING AND FREEWRITING AS PREWRITING ACTIVITY FOR STUDENT’S WRITING ABILITY IN IKIP BUDI UTOMO MALANG
Abstract
Writing is productive skill which demands students to think logically. In this research, the researcher used two groups consisting Group A (20 students) who was given clustering as prewriting activity, and Group B (20 students) who was given freewriting as their prewriting activity. The result shows that clustering which was used by Group A did not show significant effect toward students’ writing ability. While, freewriting which is used in Group B shows significant effect towards students’ writing ability. The two different results found might be caused by grammatical and vocabulary items scores in students writing draft