THE USE OF JOURNAL WRITING IN IMPROVING STUDENT’S WRITING SKILL OF RECOUNT TEXT

The objective of this research is to investigate how the journal writing can improve students’ writing skill of recount text. This research is Classroom Action Research (CAR) and the subject is second grade in SMA PAB 9 Patumbak, Deli Serdang. There are 23 students who participate in this research. In collecting the data, there are three instruments. they are observation, interview and test. The pretest result is 22 % of students who have passed the KKM(75). The mean in Post test 1 result is 67.43 which 47.82% or 11 students who have not passed the KKM. The researcher then conducts the post test 2 . The result of post test 2 score shows the mean in this test is 73.04. The students who pass the KKM in this test are 18 students or 78.26%. This data can be concluded that the result of the test had fulfilled the target of the successful research. The target is 75 % and the test in the cycle 2 (Post test 2) is 78.26%. Then from the result, this research that using Classroom Action Research (CAR) is success and the cycle finish in cycle 2. The last, according to the data, it can be conclude that the students of second grade in SMA PAB 9 Patumbak, Deli Serdang can improve their writing skill in recount text.