USING TRAVEL VLOG ABOUT HOLIDAY 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
Wahyudi, Mohammad Imam. 2022. “Using Travel Vlog About Holiday as Media in Improving
Students’ Ability in Writing Recount Texts: “A Case of Tenth Grade of Sma N 2 Kendal
Academic Year 2022/2023”. Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of
Language and Arts Education, University of PGRI Semarang, Advisor I: Dr. Ngasbun Egar,
S.Pd., M.Pd., Advisor II: Ririn Ambarini, S.Pd., M.Hum.
Keywords: Writing, Recount text, Travel Vlog
Nowadays, English is as 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 text 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 writting needs interesting media, the
researcher use travel vlog as learning media because at this time its 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 researcher 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 writer gets 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 writer gets 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
conclude that travel vlog video can improve their writing ability in recount text