The Writing Ability in Recount Text of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Kudus in Academic Year 2013/2014 Taught by Using Diary

Writing as one of the four skills, has given an important contribution to human work. The important of writing can be seen in people’s daily activities and social lifeLanguage conveys the messages among people to communicate and interact.But, the students sometimes need too much time only for thinking what they are going to write. The writer thinks that it is not effective enough, so they need a media.The writer uses diary. It is a new media in teaching English.Hopefully by using this media of teaching, the students can more interest and morediligentinlearningtowriteunforgettableexperience in diary anywhere. The purpose of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference of the writing ability in recount text of the eighth grade students of smp muhammadiyah 1 kudus in academic year 2013/2014 taught by using diary. This is an experimental research. The writer uses one group. The population usedis the students of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Kudus in academic year 2013/2014.While the sample is class VIII F. The number of the subject is 30.There are six meetings during the research. Before the students have treatments, they have pre test first. After that is treathment. In the end of the treatment, the researcher gives post test to the student and compares the result with pre test result. The result of the experiment shows that the mean of pre test is 45.83 by standard deviation 9.04 and the mean of post test is 67.5 by standard deviation 12.98. It was found t-observation 12.67 in the level significance 5% from the degree of freedom (df) N-1 (30-1 = 29), and t-table (tt) 2.04. In other word t-observation is higher than t-table (to>tt). Therefore, it can be said that the null hypothesis is rejected, while the hypothesis of the research is confirmed. Based on the result of the research above, the writer suggests that teachers should use an interesting media in teaching and learning process. It is to make students practice their ability of writing from simple to the complex one in diary, without feel affraid to make mistake