Developing Digital Scrapbook as Media of Teaching Recount Text Writing for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Prayatna Medan

The study was aimed to develop Digital Scrapbook as media of Teaching Recount Text Writing for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Prayatna Medan. This Study was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D) design through six stages: gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing material, validating experts, revising and final product. The subject of the study was Grade VIII of SMP Prayatna Medan. The instruments of data collection were gathered by administrating interview and distributing questionnaire to 30 respondents to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire result proved that the students need English learning media which can motivate the students to understand writing recount text. The product was validated by two experts; English lecturer and English teacher. The product result was Digital Scrapbook that contains visual media to be used in mastering the recount text writing. The result of experts’ validation showed that the media was an appropriate media to be used in teaching writing recount text by getting the average percentage of 97.5% categorized as excellent.