D, The THE EFFECT OF USING PHOTOGRAPH AND DIARY ON STUDENTS’ RECOUNT WRITING

Abstract

This study was to investigate the effect of photograph and diary on students’ recount writing at the eighth grade students of SMPN 11 South Jakarta. The subjects of the study were 64 eight grader students. The purposes of this study were: to find out whether there is the effectiveness of using photograph and diary, to find out the students’ recount writing using photograph and diary, to find out the different effect of using photograph and diary on students’ recount writing.  After applying the experimental design with diary and picture as research treatments, the researcher then gave writing test to see the mean differences between subjects. The formula used to analyze data was the independent t-test. The researcher used SPSS 17 to calculate the data and the result showed the sig. (2 tailed) value lower than 0.05. It means that there is no significant difference effect on students’ writing skill between students who were taught using photograph and diary.

Key word: Photograph, diary, recount writing