The Effect Of Students’ Diary On Students’ Recount Text Writing Skill Of Class X MAS PP. Raudlatul Hasanah

Abstract

This study attempts to find out about the effect of diary on students’  writing skill in recount text. The objective of the study is to discover whether the effect of writing diary  technique could significantly increase  students’ interest in developing their writing skill especially in recount text. And to find out the ability of students before and after using this technique. This study was conducted by applying experimental design. Two classes where involved in this research, experimental class and control class. The experimental class consists of the students who received treatment. The subject of this study  of tenth grade students of  Raudlatul Hasanah which consisted  of 30 students each class. The test is based on students’ writing on their daily diary with the component of writing : the content, organization, vocabulary which was analyzed by using T-test formula. It was shown from of the score of the students with the calculation  of t-test (4,41) with degree of freedom (df) = 58 was higher than t_table (1,67) (p=58) . There is significant effect on students’ scores  in each writing test. Therefore, it can be concluded that diary writing affected students’ recount text writing skill.