Holiday Trips as a Medium to Improve Recount Text Mastery

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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter is a review of related literature. It consists of two sub-chapters; they are 1 previous studies and 2 theoretical review.

2.1 Previous Studies

There are numbers of studies have been conducted related to improving students’ mastery of writing recount text. Various strategies and techniques had been applied by researchers in those studies. Improving students’ mastery of writing recount text using various attractive and challenging media is the main point of this study. Those previous studies will be reviewed in relation to this study.

2.1.1 Holiday Trips as a Medium to Improve Recount Text Mastery

Ratih 2008 conducted research Using Holiday Trips as the Source to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing of Recount Paragraphs A case Study of the Year Eight Students of SMP Negeri 1 Bawen in the Academic Year of 20072008. The objectives of this study are to find out how interesting experience improves stud ents’ ability in writing recount text and also the advantages and disadvantages of using their interesting experiences in holiday trips. The study was conducted at SMP N 1 Bawen in academic year of 20072008. The population of the study is all of year eight students’ of SMP N 1 Bawen, while the sample of the study is the students of VIII F class. The study uses Classroom Action Research Design, the 10 objective of using the design is to improve the effectiveness of teaching learning process. During the study, the researcher collected the data using various ways; they are observation, tests, and questionnaire. The observation was conducted to monitor the on- going learning process, students’ performance, and also teacher’s performance. The test was intended to as sess the students’ development. Series of tests were carried out during the study, they were pretest and posttest. The questionnaire was series of questions given by the researcher to the students after the cycle of the study. The objective of the questionnaire was to determine whether the study gave the intended effects or not to the teaching learning process. By the end of the study, the researcher presented the result of the study in form of achievement percentage. The results of the study are the following; 1 in activity 1, students’ achievement is 56.6, 2 in activity 2, students’ achievement is 69, and 3 in activity 3, students’ achievement is 78. The result of the questionnaire is also indicated that the study improves students’ writing skill in recount text.

2.1.2 Diary Writing as a Medium to Improve Recount Text Mastery

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