The Use of Journal Writing to Improve Students Writing Skill for the Second Year Students of MAN Kp. Teungoh Langsa

Name: Nurlaila Wati, Place/Date of Birth: Aceh Utara, 22th October1992, Reg. No: 1042010114, The Title of Thesis: THE USE OF JOURNAL WRITING TO IMPROVE STUDENTS WRITING SKILL FOR THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF MAN KP. TEUNGOH LANGSA. Since years ago,people often think that writing isthe most difficult skill.Limited in grammar, difficultin word choice and afraid of making mistakes are some reasons why writing viewed as difficult skill. These also made most of the second year students in Man Kp. Teungoh Langsa most difficulties in writing, develop their imagination, low scores, and felt bored to write written English. Therefore, a lot of practices are needed to improve writing skill. The writer should give an appropriate media or strategy in learning writing to provide more changes for students to improve their skill in writing. The Journal is a media that is expected to give a change for the learners because they can write their daily pleasing situation or experience that make them feel free to write. The objective of this research is to find out the effect of journal writing in improving students’ writing skill in recount text. The writer were conducted in Man Kp. Teungoh Langsa, for the second year students in the first semester of academic year 2015/2016. The study belongs to Experimental research, with pre-test and post test design.In this research the writer took two classes, experimental and control class. The pre-test and post-test were done in both classes. The writer gave a treetment using journal in experimental class while in control class, the writer did not use journal.The learning process was conducted for three times. After analyzing data of the research. The data were obtained by using some instruments. Among them were test (consist of pretest and posttest). Based on the test given, the experiment group got higher score than control group. The experiment group got 5. 30 and the control group got 1.56. The result of the study that there was positive effect of using Journal writing to improve students writing skill for the second grade students of Man Kp. Teungoh Langsa. By comparing the test result by using Ttest that show T-score>T-table that 5.30>2.75. By examining the hypothesis Ha was accepted it means that students who teach by using journal writing can comprehend the text better than students who were taught by journal writing.