The Effect of Process-Genre Approach on Students' Writing Ability of Recount Text (A Quasi-experimental Study at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Islam Al-Mukhlishin in 2017/2018 Academic Year)

The objective of this study was to obtain the empirical evidence of the effect of process-genre approach on students? writing ability of recount text. This research used quantitative research method using quasi-experimental design. It used purposive sampling with the research sample totally 48 students. The sample of the research was divided into experimental and controlled classes with 24 students in each class. The experimental class was taught by implementing process-genre approach while the controlled class was taught without using process-genre approach. The data was obtained through pre-test and post-test. After 4 meetings of treatments, the post-test results were calculated and analyzed using t-test formula. The results of the statistical analysis showed that on df = 48 and in 5%, degree of significance, the ttable is 1.678. By comparing the value of tobserve and ttable, tobserve is higher than ttable that is 2.527 > 1.678. Then, the significant (2-tailed) showed the value 0.015 which was lower than 5% degree of significance or p<0.05 = 0.015