THE EFFECT OF USING WRITING DIARY STRATEGY ON THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY ON RECOUNT TEXT FOR GRADE X AT SMK SWASTA AL MASHUM KISARAN

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of diary writing on the ability to write recount texts in vocation high school students. This study used a quasi- experimental method and used tenth grade vocation high school students at the school as the population in this study. Two classes as research samples were selected for the experimental class and the control class. The experimental class was given treatment in the form of writing a diary and the control class was taught by the lecture method. Pretest and posttest were used as data collection techniques. Furthermore, the data were analyzed using the test results t-test showed that the average posttest score of the experimental class students was 70.27 which was higher than the control class score, which was 63.60. In addition, the results of statistical calculations, it was found that the tvalue in both posttest (2.562) are higher than the ttable (1.671) t-test result > t-table in the significance level of 0.05. In other words, there is the effect of writing a diary on the ability to write recount texts for tenth grade students at a vocation high school in Almashum Kisaran. The results of this study are expected to stimulate and initiate further research.

Keywords: Writing Skill, Recount Text, Writing Diary