The importance of Cluster method in teaching English

Introduction

Relevance of the work. Language has very important role in social relationship among human being. It is a media of communication that can help people to interact, converse, and to share with other people in the world especially use English language. English is the important language in the world, because English as an international language. However, English used to communicate with the people in other country. It is the reason why many people want to study about English.

English has gained it is popularity all over the world including Uzbekistan. English has a compulsory subject in school that covers four skills namely: listening, reading, speaking and writing. The writer focus on writing skill, because writing is considered the most difficult and complicated language skill to be learned.

In the processing of classroom learning, students are not only required to be able to listen to what the teacher talking or reading a text, then speaking well, but they are also required to be able to write a word, a sentence or a paragraph well. Otherwise, in this case one of the complex problems is writing. Generally, the students have difficulties organizing ideas in appropriate choice of sentence and paragraph organization into a readable text. Therefore, the purpose of writing it‟s self especially in expressing ideas Writing in a foreign language often presents the greatest challenge to the students at all stages in improving writing skill.

Writing is one of the important skills in English because it takes a part as important communication tools. People need to learn English writing because it is a process of expressing idea, opinion, experience and information in the form of written language. In fact, the students still get some difficulties when they asked to write English text. Especially narrative text. Most of them get low scores in their writing. It is caused by the students‟ lack of knowledge how to write. In practice, writing is the last part which is taught by teachers after have taught listening, speaking, and

reading but it does not mean that is not important. Based on writer’s experience, the

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most difficult skill to be learned is writing. There were some problems found in the

field. The writer observed during activity at SMP Nusantara Tuntang. One of the problems is that students‟ writing is not comprehensible, because the content of the composition is not relevant to the topic, the ideas are not clearly stated, the ideas and sentence are not well organized.