Teaching Writing Recont Text through Photo diary

Abstract

The main problem was the effectiveness to teach writing recount text through photo diary and the differences in achievement between students who were taught through photo diary and those who were not. Therefore, the objective of this study to find out whether it was effective or not to teach writing recount text through photo diary and to know the differences in achievement between the students who were taught by using photo diary and those  who were not. The experimental method was used in this study. The population of this study was the eighth grade students of Junior high school number 5 with 74 students as the sample total numbers, which were divided into two groups, 37 students from experimental group and 37 students from control group. The data were collected through essay tests, pretest and posttest. The results showed that it was effective to teach writing recount text through photo diary, there were some differences in achievement between students who were taught through photo diary and without photo diary. It also indicated that photo diary could improve the students writing skills recount text.

Keywords: teaching, writing, recount text, photo diary