THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIARY TOWARD STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF MTS ALHUDA BANDUNG TULUNGAGNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2015/2016

ABSTRACT Wulandari, Reni Kristina. Student Registered Number. 2813123126. 2016. The Effectiveness of Using Diary toward Students’ Achievement in writing recount text at the Eighth Grade of MTs AL Huda BandungTulungagung. Thesis.English Education Department.Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. ArinaShofiya, M.Pd. Keywords: Effectiveness, Diary, Writing Recount text Writing is productive skills. It means that Writing needs some processes of thinkingto gather ideas to write a text. One strategy in writing recount text is diary. Diary can be used as a teaching medium to help teachers in teaching, especially in teaching writing recount text because diary and recount text are almost the same.In writing diary same with write daily activity who was happen. The advantages of diary writing can help the students to improve their writing skills and motivation towards writing. The formulated the research problems were: 1) How is student’s achievement in writing recount text before being taught by using diary? 2) How is student’s achievement in writing recount text after being taught by using diary? 3) Is there any significant difference score after and before being taught by using diary? Based on the research problems above, the objectives of research were: 1) To know students’ achievement in writing recount text before being taught by using diary. 2) To know students’ achievement in writing recount text after being taught by using diary. 3) To know whether any significant difference of the students’ scores before and after being taught by using diary. The research design in this research was pre-experimental design with one grouppretest and posttest from quantitative approach. The population of this research was all eighth gradeat MTs AL Huda Bandung Tulungagung. The sample was students of eighth grade consisting of 32 students. The research instrument was a tests that were pre-test and post-test. The data analysis was using t-test. The result showed that the students mean pretest score was 62.78, and the means posttest score was 77.34. After analyzed by using paired sample t-test, it showed that T-count was 14.682, whereas T-table with significant level 5% and df = 31 was 2.021. So, T-count was greater than T-table. This means that Ha which states that there is significant effect in using diary to teach writing recount textfor eighth grade at MTs AL Huda Bandung was accepted. Whereas, Ho which states there is no significant effect in using diary to teach writing recount text for eighth grade at MTs Alhuda Bandung was rejected. In conclusion of this study, diary can be used as an alternative strategy to teach writing especially in writing recount text for students at MTs level.Then, diarycanimprove the writing skills of the eight grade students of MTs Alhuda Bandung