USING PJW TO TEACH WRITING RECOUNT TEXT AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 PONTIANAK

Abstract

Abstract

This research was about teaching students"™ recount text writing by using personal journal writing. This research was a pre-experimental research on 36 students of class X IPS 1 of SMA Muhamaddiah 1 Pontianak in the academic year of 2017/2018. In this application, this study was done in stages involved giving pre-test in form of a task writing a recount text, giving treatment that is implementing the usage of personal journal as a medium to practice writing recount text, and giving post-test in form of a task writing a recount text. Based on the result of the data computation, it was obtained that the students"™ score of post-test (50.58) was higher than students"™ score of pre-test (32.80). The t-test score was 4.08 and the effect size was 0.7 showed that it categorized as a moderate effect. The result was categorized as a moderate effect because it is within the category of 0.51 and 1.0. Thus, Personal Journal Writing is effective in teaching writing recount text for the tenth-grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Pontianak in Academic Year 2017/2018.

Keyword: PJW, Writing, recount text, pre-experimental research