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The Use Of Reflective Journal Writing...., Rika Dartiara, 57-63
THE USE OF REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WRITING IN TEACHING
WRITING THROUGH RECOUNT TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE
STUDENT OF SMAN 1 PAGELARAN LAMPUNG
Rika Dartiara
Institut Agama Islam Negeri Metro, Lampung
Email: dartiararika@gmail.com
Abstract: The research aims to analyze the process of using reflective journal
writing through recount text at SMAN 1 Pagelaran and to analyze the students’
problems in writing reflective journal through recount text. This was a case study.
The data were collected by observation, documentation, and interview. The
st
research was conducted in SMAN 1 Pagelaran Lampung from July 31 2015 to
th
September 9 2015. The participants involve in the reseach consisted of 32
students of X.2. In this case the researcher focused on six students. The process of
teaching learning activity was conducted for six meetings. The result of this study
showed that the process of using reflective journal writing in teaching writing
through recount text in X.2 run well. The students’ writing task of reflective
journal revealed that the use of reflective journal writing affected their writing.
Keywords:Writing, Reflective Journal, Recount Text
INTRODUCTION researcher concluded it because they
Writing is one of important skill to rarely got opportunity to write a
learn in communicative learning. paragraph. For that reason the
Byre (1997:01) states that “writing is researcher thought that the students
the act of forming symbols, letters, or needed strategy to overcome their
combinations of letter, which relate writing problems and to encourage
to the sound when we speak, making students to be able write well. One
marks on a flat surface of some kind, excellent way to get practice in
arranged to certain convections to writing is by keeping daily journal.
form words and words arranged to Moon (2006:01) states that journal
form sentences.” By writing, students writing is vehicle for reflection,
can convey their feeling and their reflection enables to learn from
opinion. To make the students have experience. It is ongoing process of
opportunity to write a sentence into a critically learning practice in writing.
paragraph, the teacher have to give By asking the students to make a
exposure and practice to the students. reflective journal it can help them
In fact, based on preliminary develop their writing habit. Some
research in SMAN 1 Pagelaran, the experts who asserted the use of
reseacher found some students got reflective journal writing in teaching
difficulties in writing academically, writing were Farrah (2012:04),
for example, from their grammar, Watson (2010:12), and Ortlipp
content, and organization. The (2008:04). In this case the researcher
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proposed recount text as a material to meeting, the finding of observation
use reflective journal. According to showed the development from day
syllabus of curriculum education in to day in their writing. In the first
Indonesia named KTSP (Kurikulum observation the researcher explained
Tingkat Satuan Pelajar) the first the definition and the purpose of
th reflective journal writing. In the
semester of the 10 grade should
learn recount text. This type of text is second of observation the researcher
used to retell past event. According explained the material of recount
to Anderson and Anderson text. The definition and purpose of
(2002:24), “Recount is a piece of text recount, then generic structure and
that retells past event, usually in the the example of recount text. The
order in which they occurred.” This result of students writing of
text is very essential to be learned in reflective journal can be seen in the
writing class since this text motivates following table:
the students to develop their writing. Table 1
Thus, in this research, the researcher The result of students’ writing task
formulated two research questions as of reflective journal
follows:
1. How is the process of using No. Students
reflective journal writing through Students’ writing task of
reflective journal in the
recount text in teaching learning second day
activity at SMAN 1 Pagelaran? 1. 1st student Mrs.Rika told us that the
2. What are the student’s problems definition of recount text
in writing reflective journal is a kind of text or
paragraph which was re-
writing through recount text? told about experience.
2. 2nd student Kind of recount text that
RESEARCH METHOD is a personal recount,
This qualitative research that factual recount, and
involved case study was conducted at imaginative recount.
rd We learn about recount,
the first semester in SMAN 1 3. 3 student
Pagelaran. The participant of this generic structure of
recount, and also about
research was the tenth grade students grammatical features.
of X.2. The data collecting th In the second day we
4. 4 student
techniques used in this research were learned about recount
observation, document, and text, we also studied about
the generic structure of
interview. Observation used to recount text.
answer first reasearch question, th Miss Rika told me about
5. 5 student
while document and interview used recount text, what is
to answer second reseach question. recount, generic structure
of recount, grammatical
features, and she gave me
RESEARCH FINDINGS AND two story of recount text.
DISSCUSIONS th Recount text is a type of
6. 6 student
Based on the fisrt research question spoken or written text that
of the process of using reflective deals with past
experiences. the purpose
journal writing through recount text is to retell some events
from first meeting until sixth that happened in the past.
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In the third observation the Table 3
researcher explained tenses past The result of students’ writing task of
tense that used in the recount text. In reflective journal
this observation, the reseacher asked
the student to write their experience No. Students Students’ writing task of reflective
using tenses past tense. The students journal in the fourth day
st To make our sentence become
1. 1 student
were enthusiastic to make paragraph. sustainable, it will be better if we
add conjunction in our paragraph. It
The result of students’ writing of was to continue our sentence.
reflective journal can be seen in the 2. 2nd student Conjunction consist of two kind.
following table: They are coordinate conjunction.
Example of coordinate conjunction
are: For, And, Not, But, Or, Yet, So.
In other word, it can called
Table 2 “FANBOYS” in a short word. While,
the second kind of conjunction is
subordinate conjunction. And the
The result of students’ writing task of example for subordinate are: after,
reflective journal before, since, until, etc.
rd There are two kind of conjunction in
3. 3 student
No. Students Students’ writing task of reflective general. First, coordinate
journal in the third day conjunction and the second
subordinate conjunction. The
purpose of conjunction itself is to
st The definition of past tense itself is connect sentences by sentences. By
1. 1 student
the event that happened in the past. connected it, we could make it into
paragraph.
nd She explained the differentiate
2. 2 student th
where is nominal and where is 4. 4 student We studied about connecting word. It
verbal. She also told us how to can be called “conjunction”. The
differentiate between both. purpose of conjunction is to connect
one sentence to another sentence.
rd Mrs.Rika told that past tenses Hence, the use of conjunction is
3. 3 student really important in making
divided into two, verbal and paragraph.
nominal. In the verbal sentence we
did not have to use to be, while in th
the nominal sentence we used to be. 5. 5 student She told me about conjunction,
coordinate conjunction, subordinate
th In this opportunity, Mrs.Rika gave conjunction.
4. 4 student
explanation about past tense. I th
really understood about what was 6. 6 student We discussed about conjunction.
described by Mrs.Rika, because she Where we knew that conjunction is
described clearly. us to connecting the sentences
became a good paragraph. Actually
th The first Mrs.Rika came in my class there are so many kind of
5. 5 student conjunction, it appropriate with each
and gave me an order to studied purpose. But in general conjunction
about irregular verb, regular verb, divided into two, subordinate and
past tense, nominal sentence, verbal coordinate.
sentence, to be, was were.
th We practiced to make a sentence
6. 6 student
using past tense, after we finished,
we discussed together. And we also
come forward to write our sentence In the following of
in front of the class. observation the researcher asked the
students to make an essay. The topic
was about Learning English in My
Class the content was about their
In the forth observation, experience when they learned english
discussed about conjuction. in their class. The generic structure
Conjuction is used to connect was about recount text that consists
paragraph. The result of students of orientation, event, and re-
writing reflective journal can be seen orientation. The tenses that they
in the following table: useed was past tense. The result of
students writing of reflective journal
can be seen in the following table:
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Table 4 Last week, I learned
The result of students’ writing task of B.English studied the case greeting,
reflective journal introducing yourself, introducing
No. Students Students’ writing task of reflective
journal in the sixth day someone, closing/leave taking. I’m
st She gave us a lot of material. Among the
1. 1 student feeling very happy because this is the
greeting , recount, and conjunction.
Among them all, the best I play I think lesson I take. Because that I want a
that recount, because I’m confused tenses
used. She said during her teaching us, we smart and can speak fluently to
will be given the task of making reflective
journal during her teaching us. From British.
there I became accustomed to writing
reflective journal. When I studied B.English
2. 2nd student The teacher asked us to practice how to with Miss Rika her sense of fun and I
write well. One of the way is using in love. Please for his future, I can
reflective journal. In every day made a
journal related what we learned. We loved know more about B.English.
this way, because we can practice our
writing. And I think by practice in every From the first student’s
day we can write well. Although I could
not master vocabulary and the grammar writing reflective journal above, we
but I learned so many thing. I think write
a paragraph in English became so can see that there were some problem
difficult, because we never tried to write
and never tried to practice. in her writing. The problems lie in
rd In our journey when we learned English
3. 3 student how she structured her sentence
with Miss Rika, we studied about greeting,
introducing yourself, introducing properly and how to write good
someone, closing, and we learned past
tense, recount text, and also conjunction. paragraph. Moreover, she also has
She always asked to write reflective
journal. I’m happy because by write a problem in using word choice for her
reflective journal we could easy to
remember about the material that we writing. This is expected to happen
learned. because previously, this student was
th In every meeting, we made reflective
4. 4 student nor exposed to writing very often.
journal about our experience when we
learned English in a piece of paper. We
done it at home we done it at home as our
reflection whether we understood or not 2. Second document of reflective
what we had learned. Indeed, for me
learned English is not really difficult, journal
although my vocabulary still lack of, but I
will try to give the best. On last Wednesday, we learned
th My favorite study is English language and English started from 09.45 AM until
5. 5 student
in first day I studied English language 11.05 AM with our teacher.
Miss Rika came in my class. She learning
us about English study there are greeting, It was our second day to
initial greeting, responses, introducing
yourself, introducing someone, learned English, I felt very because I
closing/leave taking, past tense about
verbal sentence, nominal sentence, to be, could learn English well from Miss
conjunction, coordinate conjunction,
subordinate conjunction Rika. In each meeting, our teacher
th Since we learned English in our class, we
6. 6 student asked the students to make reflective
felt our knowledge about English
increased, especially in writing. It journal in the piece of paper, the
happened because the teacher asked us to
make reflective journal as our routine. purpose is to remind the previous
Hence we could practice our writing
more. material. And in the second day we
learned about recount text. We also
studied about generic structure of
In the second research recount text. After the teacher
question of the student problems in explained about recount text, the
writing through recount text, the students tried to make a paragraph
finding from document showed as about our experience.
follow: That’s all about activity last
1. First document of reflective Wednesday and I hope after we
journal
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