Agung Prasetyo Wibowo (2013) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING LEARNING LOGS STRATEGY TOWARDSTUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING AN EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH AT THE FIRST YEAR OF SMAN 1 SELATPANJANGMERANTI REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Senior High School 1 Selatpanjang, Meranti Regency is one of the schools that uses School Based Curriculum as a guidance in teaching and learning process. After doing preliminary research at this school, the researcher found that most of the students of the first year still had low ability in writing paragraph which was proven that they found difficulties in writing topic sentences, supporting ideas, and concluding sentence though they have learned about it. Thus, the researcher was interested in conducting the research entitled The Effectiveness of Using Learning Logs Strategy toward students’ ability in Writing an Expository Paragraph at the first year of SMA N 1 Selatpanjang, Meranty Regency. The design of this research was a true-experimental research. The objective of this research was to find the significant difference of students’ability in writing an expository paragraph which was taught by using conventional strategy and Learning Logs Strategy. The subject of this research was the first year students of SMA N 1 Selatpanjang, Meranti Regency. In this research, the researcher took two classes; an experimental and a control class from eight classes. It means that there were 47 students that become the sample from the whole total of students at the first year or first grade. To take the sample, the researcher used clustering sample randomly based on group. In colleccting data, the researcher used a test and an observation list. In this research. The researcher analyzed the data manually by using t test formula. Finally, the researcher found the mean score of students’ post test in control class was 65,5. Meanwhile the mean score of students’ post test score in the experimental class was 73,4. The result of t observed of significant difference between students’ writing expository paragraph which was taught by using Learning Logs Strategy and which was taught by using Conventional Strategy was 5,26. This result was higher than t table significant 5% (2,02) and 1% (2,69). H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. It means that there was significant difference of students’ ability in writing an expository paragraph which was taught by using Conventional Strategy and which was taught by using Learning Logs Strategy.

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