Improving students' writing achievement of recount text through weekly journal

This research aimed to investigate whether or not there is an improvement in students’ writing achievement of recount text because of the implementation of weekly journal. This research was quantitative research with pre-test and post-test design. The population of this research was tenth grade students of SMK SWADHIPA 2 NATAR in academic year 2021/2022 with 33 students of X TKJ 1 as the sample. The instrument used in this research was written test and used pre-test and post-test to collect the data. The data were analyzed by using Paired sample t-test showed the significant value which is .000 and the standard of hypothesis testing is α≤0.05. The data analysis confirmed that there is an improvement in students’ writing achievement because of the implementation of weekly journal since α≤0.05 (α=0.05).