THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIALOGUE JOURNAL STRATEGY TOWARDS’ STUDENTS WRITING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA N 08 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

ABSTRACT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIALOGUE JOURNAL STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA N 08 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020 By Diana Sari Writing is one of English skills that must be mastered by the students. Based on the preliminary research in SMAN 08 Bandar Lampung, most of the students, 131 (61,80%) got lower than 72. The minimum criteria for writing abilit in SMAN 08 Bandar Lampung is 72. The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a significant effectiveness in using dialogue journal strategy towards students‟ writing ability in recount text at the first semester of the tenth grade of SMA N 08 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2019/2020. In this research, the researcher used quasi-experimental research design. The population of this research was the students of SMA N 08 Bandar Lampung at the tenth grade. The researcher had chosen the sample randomly by using cluster random sampling technique. The researcher used dialogue journal strategy in experimental class as a treatment and expository strategy in control class. In collecting the data, the researcher used instrument in written form. The instrument was used for pre-test and post-test. Before analyzing the data, the researcher did test for normality distribution and the variance of the data was homogeneous. Therefore, to analyzing the data, the researcher used independent sample test. From the data analysis computed by using SPSS, it was obtained that Sig = 0.003 and = 0,05. It means Ha is accepted because Sig˂ɑ= 0.05. It can be concluded there is a significant effect of using dialogue journal strategy in writing recount text at the tenth grade of SMAN N 08 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2019/2020 Keywords: Dialogue Journal Strategy, Recount Text Writing, Quasi Experimental Desig