THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DOUBLE ENTRY JOURNAL STRATEGY IN WRITING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT

Abstract

The purpose of this quasi experimental research is to find out the effectiveness of double entry journal strategy toward students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text of the eleventh grade of MA Alkhairaat Pusat Palu. Thirty five (35) students were chosen as the sample using cluster sampling technique which was group IPA 2 as an experimental group (N=19) and group IPS as a control group (N=16). The data were collected by tests and were analysed statistically. The results showed that after implementing double entry journal strategy in experimental group, the students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text has increased significantly. It is shown by the means of pretest that was 43.47 and posttest which was 77.78. While the result of control group that taught without double entry journal strategy was lower with the mean of pretest was 42.37 and posttest was 65.18. It was also can be seen from the value of t-test, it was 6.052 which was greater than 1.678 (t table) with significance level of 0.05. Therefore, double entry journal strategy is effective to be used in improving the students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text.  Keywords: double entry journal strategy, analytical exposition text.