USING THE SIX JOURNALIST QUESTION STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXTS FOR THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 RANDUDONGKAL PEMALANG 2022

Mutiara, Desta. 2022. Using The Six Journalist Question Strategy To
Improve Students’ Ability In Writing Recount Texts For The First Year
Students Of SMA N 1 Randudongkal Pemalang 2022. Final Project, English
Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University of
PGRI Semarang. Adisor 1: Dr. Ngasbun Egar, S.Pd., M.Pd., Advisor 2 Ririn
Ambarini, S.Pd., M.Pd.
This research focused on analyze using the Six Journalist Question Strategy in
Recount Text for the first year student senior high school. The main objectives of
this study were (1) to find out the students with the ability to write recount text of
tenth-grade students; of SMA Negeri 01 Randudongkal taught without using
strategy. (2) to find out the students with the ability to write recount text of tenth-
grade students of SMA Negeri 01 Randudongkal taught withusing strategy. And
(3) to find out wheter or not there is any significant difference in writing ability in
recount text of tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Randudongkal between those
who are taught using strategy and those who are taught without using strategy.In
this research, quantitative was applied to analyze data, includes a control class and
experimental class in tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Randudongkal Pemalang
2022.Quantitative research that requires the researcher to determine the significant
relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable. In this
study, the researcher attended two classes: one was an experimental class taught
by Journalist Question Strategy, and the other was a control class taught by
conventional strategy. In this research using statistics for analyze data statistical
formulas, specifially SPSS 24. The results showed that (1)Writing ability of the
students taught without using strategy showed that mean score of pretest was
70,30 (Good Level) and post test was 78,73 (Good Level) and then (2) Writing
ability of the students taught with using strategy showed that was means score of
pretest was 71,27 (Good Level) and mean score of post test was 83,18 (Excellent
level) and (3) Difference of Writing Skill in Recount Text taught using strategy
and taught without using strategy .The results of the t-test demonstrate this. The t-
test results show that the hypothesis t-test score is higher than the t-table score of
16,228 >2.042. Based on the score, the researcher concluded that the t-test is
acceptable. There was a significant difference in writing skill between the tenth
grade students of SMA N 1 Randudongkal Pemalang who were taught using
Strategy and those who were not taught using Strategy in recount text.
Keywords: Recount Text, Question Strategy,Writing, Journalist Question