Improving Writing Skill in Writing Recount Text Through Diary Writing

The research was aimed at proving whether diary writing is effective to improve students\u27 skill in writing recount text or not. The research was pre-experimental research design. The population of this research was the tenth grade students at SMA Alkhairaat Kalukubula and the sample was class XA. The number of the sample was 25 students. The researcher employed cluster sampling and adopted one group pre-test and post-test design. The pre-test was used to measure the students\u27 skill in writing recount text before treatment, and post-test was used to measure the students\u27 skill after the treatment. Based on the result of both tests, the researcher found that the t-counted was 8.56. The level of significance counted is set up at 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) of the table is 25 – 1 = 24. The researcher found that t-table was 2.064. It showed that t-counted was higher than the t-table. It means that the hypothesis of this research is accepted. In conclusion, the use of diary writing was effective to improve the students\u27 skill in writing recount text