THE EFFECT OF DIARY WRITING ON STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST GRADE OF MAN KOTA BATU

Diary writing is one of media that can be used to help the students enjoy in learning writing. The formulated research problems were: 1)Does diary writing have effect on writing ability of students at the first grade of MAN Kota Batu? Based on the research problems above, the objectives of research were to know whether diary writing has effect on writing of first grade students of MAN Kota Batu. The research design in this research was pre-experimental design with one group pretest and posttest from quantitative approach. The sample was students of X-11 grade consisting of 30 students. The data analysis was using t-test. The result showed that the students mean pretest score was 69.57 and the means posttest score was 78.13 After being analyzed by using paired sample t-test, it showed that T-count was 13.557 whereas T-table with significant level 5% and df = 29 was 2.045. So, T-count was greater than T-table. This means that Ha which states that there is significant effect in using diary writing to teach writing for first grade at MAN Kota Batu was accepted. In conclusion of this research, applying diary writing can be used as an alternative strategy to teach writing for students at Senior High School level. Then, diary can improve the writing skills of the first grade students of MAN Kota Batu