Learning Journal Strategy to enhance students’ writing ability

Shaumiwaty Shaumiwaty

doi:10.26905/enjourme.v5i1.4238

Learning Journal Strategy to enhance students’ writing ability

Shaumiwaty Shaumiwaty

Abstract

This research aims to find out the students writing ability by using learning journal strategy. In to do that, the experiment methods with one group pretest and posttest design was used. The population in this research was 218 students at eight grade (VIII) of Secondary students on MTsN Takengon I. As the research sample, it was chosen two classes, i.e. VIII¹ as the experiment class and VIII² as the control class. The pre-test was given and it was followed by the treatments in four meetings to the students. The data were analyzed using t-test to reveal whether there was a significant difference in the students’ writing ability of descriptive text among the eight grade students of MTsN Takengon I. The results of this study indicate that the t-test was 2.10 and t-table was 1.07. Therefore Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted because the t-test is higher than the t-table.

DOI: 10.26905/enjourme.v4i2.4238

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learning journal strategy, writing skills, descriptive text

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/enjourme.v5i1.4238