The Implementation of Diary Writing to Improve Students' Writing Ability in Recount Text at the Eighth Grade of MTs Baniy Kholiel Bangsalsari

Bella Amelia, Resmanto (2022) The Implementation of Diary Writing to Improve Students' Writing Ability in Recount Text at the Eighth Grade of MTs Baniy Kholiel Bangsalsari. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KIAI HAJI ACHMAD SIDDIQ JEMBER.

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Bella Amelia Resmanto, 2022: The Implementation of Diary Writing to Improve Students’ Writing Ability in Recount Text at the Eighth Grade of MTs Baniy Kholiel Bangsalsari.
Keywords: diary writing, writing ability
The students of the eight grade had problem in writing. The students immediately wrote what they thought without regarding their writing was correct or not and wrote their assignment freely. The students’ writing skills should be more attention. They still didn’t understand about writing. The problem was they didn’t practice enough. The teacher realized that he did not provide sufficient writing practice both inside and outside the classroom. So, the writer emphasizes on the study in the use of diary writing by giving an assignment at class and home for students as their pleasant habit. It will help students to understand easily.
This research is about the implementation of diary writing to improve students’ writing ability at the eighth grade of MTs Baniy Kholiel Bangsalsari. The research question in this research focused on “How is the implementation of diary writing able to improve students' writing ability?”. The objective of research was to investigate how the implementation of diary writing is able to improve students' writing ability.
The approach used in this research was Classroom Action Research. (CAR). The classroom action and research design used in this research are collaborative classroom action research. In this study, researcher was research with the English teacher of MTs Baniy Kholiel Bangsalsari. The researchers conducted this research at the eighth grade of MTs Baniy Kholiel Bangsalsari of 25 students. The research was conducted in cycle 1 and cycle 2. Each cycle consisted of four steps: planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. To collect the data, the researcher used the students’ writing testing, observing, and interviewing. The testing was utilized to find out the improvement of the students’ writing after the research was conducted.
The results of the research in cycle 1 showed that 60% of students who managed to get a score above the minimum mastery criterion (KKM) with the mean 67,6, and the held of cycle 2 showed that 76% of students who got the criteria of success with the mean 72,2. The criteria for success in this study is if students who achieve a minimum mastery criterion (70) are equal to or more than 75% of the total students in this study, it can be said to be successful. It showed a significant improvement, thus it fulfill the success criteria. It can be concluded that the implementation of writing diary is believed to be an effective way to improve students’ writing ability at the eighth grade of MTs Baniy Kholiel Bangsalsari.

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