Teaching Writing Recount Text Through Personal Journal Writing

This research was conducted to find out whether Personal Journal Writing is effective and how effective it is in teaching writing recount text. This research was conducted to the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Pontianak in Academic Year 2014/2015. In this research, a quasi experimental design was used by the writer. The samples were class XD as the experimental group and the control group was class XE. In this research, the result of t-test computation was 4.57 with degree of freedom is 65 and t-table is 2.00. It showed that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) that teaching writing recount text through personal journal writing is effective is accepted and the effectiveness was strong. In conclusion, personal journal writing can be a good alternative in teaching writing recount text on the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Pontianak and in other schools which have similar characteristics to SMA Negeri 3 Pontianak