This study is aimed at responding t

This study is aimed at responding the following questions: (1) how is the
implementation of a personal letter in improving students’ skill in writing recount
text to the tenth graders of MASS Proto Pekalongan in the Academic Year of
2011/2012?, (2) how can a personal letter improve students’ skill in writing
recount text?. Then the objective of this study was to describe the improvement of
students’ writing skill after being taught by using a personal letter.
In this study, the researcher conducted a classroom action research as the
methodology of this research. There were three meetings during the research, they
were pre-cycle test, cycle test I and cycle test II. The researcher used written test
and observation in collecting the data. The using of written test was to measure
the students’ skill in writing recount text after giving the treatment, and the using
of observation was to monitor students` activities during teaching learning
process.
The result of the test showed that the students’ score in the pre-cycle test
was 55.5, the students’ score in the cycle I test was 65.7 and the students’ score in
the cycle II test was 72.2. The achievement of the test showed that the treatment
was successful because the result of the cycle II test was higher than the cycle I
test. In line with this result, the researcher concluded that the research improved
students’ skill in writing recount text.
From the result of this study, it can be stated that the using of a personal
letter was effective and very useful. It can be seen from the improvement of
students test result during pre-cycle, cycle I and cycle II. However, it will be
better if the future related studies the treatment gave more than two times, not
only cycle I and cycle II. Furthermore the personal letter was also in good design
and good theme, so the students more motivated and enjoyed in the learning
process.