The Six Journalist Question Strategy to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Recount Texts

Abstract

This research focused on analyzing use of the Six Journalist Question Strategy in Recount Text for the first-year student senior high school. The main objectives of this study were (1) to find out the students with the ability to write recount text of tenth-grade students; of SMA Negeri 01 Randudongkal taught without using strategy. (2) to find out the students with the ability to write recount text of tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 01 Randudongkal taught with using strategy. And (3) to find out whether or not there is any significant difference in writing ability in recount text of tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Randudongkal between those who are taught using strategy and those who are taught without using strategy. In this research, quantitative was applied to analyze data, using theory Urqhuhat and Mclever (2005) includes a control class and experimental class in tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Randudongkal Pemalang 2022. Quantitative research that requires the researcher to determine the significant relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable. In this study, the researchers attended two classes: one was an experimental class taught by Journalist Question Strategy, and the other was a control class taught by conventional strategy. In this research using statistics for analyze data statistical formulas, specifically SPSS 24. The results showed that (1)Writing ability of the students taught without using strategy showed that mean score of pretest was 70,30 (Good Level) and posttest was 78,73 (Good Level) and then (2) Writing ability of the students taught with using strategy showed that was means score of pretest was 71,27 (Good Level) and mean score of posttest was 83,18 (Excellent level) and (3) Difference of Writing Skill in Recount Text taught using strategy and taught without using strategy .The results of the t-test demonstrate this. The t-test results show that the hypothesis t-test score is higher than the t-table score of 16,228 >2.042. Based on the score, the researchers concluded that the t-test is acceptable. There was a significant difference in writing skill between the tenth-grade students of SMA N 1 Randudongkal Pemalang who were taught using Strategy and those who were not taught using Strategy in recount text.