USING TRAVEL VLOG ABOUT HOLIDAYS AS MEDIA IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXTS: A CASE OF TENTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 2 KENDAL ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023

Abstract

Nowadays, English is a global language. It has become the primary language of communication. Many people all over the world are speaking English. On the syllabus of Kurikulum 2013 for Senior High School, writing is one of the competences that must be mastered by the students. They are expected to be able to develop their writing skill in a variety of text types. Recount text is one of the texts that student must be mastering. In fact, students have many problems in writing. For example, they have low confident to write something, lack of writing practice, and fear of negative comments. Teaching writing needs interesting media, the researchers use travel vlog as learning media because at this time it’s very popular. The objective of this study is to find out how travel vlog video can improve their writing ability. The design of this study is quasi-experimental design. The principle of quasi-experimental design is that if two groups are selected, one group is given a special treatment which is called the experimental group, while the other or the control group is not. The population of this study was tenth grade students of SMA N 2 Kendal academic year 2022/2023 which consist of 395 students. The sample of this study was X4 and X7 of SMA N 2 Kendal which consist of 72 students. The instrument used of this research in pre-test and post-test was wrote a recount text based on their own experience. In this study, the researchers conducted three step of research there were: pre-test, treatment and post-test. The data analyzed by using descriptive analysis and inferential analysis, processed by using IBM SPSS Statistics 25. From the research that was conducted, the class that does not use travel vlog video in writing recount text, the writers get the mean of test is 70.25 with the division of 2.8% students ranked the level of excellent, 66,7% students stood the level of very good, 30.5% students stood the level of adequate. While from the class that used travel vlog video in writing a recount text, the writers get the mean of test was 77.44 with the classification of 41.7% students are in the grade of excellent, and 58.3% raised the level of good. It can be concluded that travel vlog video can improve their writing ability in recount text.