THE EFFECT OF WRITING AN ENGLISH DIARY TOWARDS STUDENTS WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SYAFII VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL JEMBER 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

Nufus, Malikatun (2024) THE EFFECT OF WRITING AN ENGLISH DIARY TOWARDS STUDENTS WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SYAFII VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL JEMBER 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KIAI HAJI ACHMAD SIDDIQ JEMBER.

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Malikatun Nufus, 2023. The Effect of Writing an English Diary Towards Students
Writing Descriptive Text at As-Syafi’i Vocational High School Jember 2023/2024
Academic Year
Keywords: English Diary Writing Strategy, Writing Skill, Descriptive Text
Writing is one of the crucial things in learning a language, it is not easy to produce writing using a foreign language such as English. Therefore writing is important to learn while at school. Based on the curriculum of SMA/SMK in Indonesia, there are several types of texts that students should be study. One of them is descriptive text. Descriptive text is the text which describes something, person, situation, places, and etc.
In learning descriptive text, students may have difficulties in learning it. Most of students at As-Syafi’i Vocational High School have difficulty in learning to write, especially in X grade students. Most of them difficulty writing their idea, they have a lack of vocabulary and lack of understanding of the use of grammar so that the students cannot make good sentences. Several strategies can be used to solve those problems. So, in this research the researcher will try to apply English Diary Writing as strategy for teaching writing in X grade students at As-Syafi’i Vocational High School. This strategy is expected to overcome the problem that occurs in the field.
This research aims to examine the significant differences of learning by using English Diary writing to students writing descriptive text at X grade students of As-Syafi’i Vocational High School Jember. The researcher used quantitative-experimental research in which the design was quasi-experimental with two classes for this research, experimental and control class. The experimental class was taught by using English Diary writing strategy while the controled class was taught by using conventional strategy. The participant in this research were class X of As-Syafi’i Vocational High School 2023/2024 academic year. They were students of XA as the experimental class which consisted of 22 students and students of XB as the control class which consisted of 24 students. The instrument for collecting data used by researcher in this research was a writing test. There were three step to analyze the test: normality test, homogeneity test, and independent sample t-test.
According to this study researcher found significant differences in scores in the two classes. The mean score of the control class on the post test was 64,5 while in the experimental class was 83. The data was obtained from the post test in the experimental and control classes then calculated using SPSS with a significance level of 0.05. Then, the calculation of the Independent Sample t-test reveals that the significance sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 < 0.05. Which means (H0) was rejected and (Ha) was accepted so there was significant difference of The Effect of Writing an English Diary Towards Students Writing Descriptive Text at As- Syafi’i Vocational High School Jember 2023/2024 Academic Year.

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