This research discusses the effectiveness of times of day game in the teaching writing of recount text of eleventh grade students of SMK Bina Utama Kendal in the academic year of 2015/2016. The background of the research was based on the phenomenon students’ difficulties in writing paragraph coherently. This research was intended to answer the following research question; how effective is the use of times of day game in the teaching writing of recount text at the eleventh grade students of SMK Bina Utama Kendal in the academic year of 2015/2016.
Population of the research was eleventh grade students of SMK Bina Utama Kendal in the academic year of 2015/2016. This was an experimental research. It was conducted into two group; experimental group (XI TKJ 1) and control group (XI TKJ 2) which was choosen by cluster random sampling technique. Experimental group was taught recount text by using times of day game while control group was taught without times of day game.
Instrument of the research were written test and documentation. There were pre-test and post test to collect data. From the result of analysis of normality test and homogenity test, it was known that both groups were normal distribution and have same variant. Another formula that was used to analyze the data was t-test. It was used to determine whether there was a difference between average score of experimental group and control group or not.
Based on the data obtained, it showed that pre-test average score of experimental group was 68.6 and control group was 67.5. Meanwhile, the post test average of experimental group was 71 and control group was 66.1. Furthermore, it was obtained that tcount was 2.138 and ttable 2.005 for α = 5%. Because ttable was lower than tcount (2.005 < 2.138) so Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted that there was a difference of the post test average score between experimental group and control group.
In conclusion, times of day game is effective in the teaching writing of recount text at the eleventh grade students of SMK Bina Utama Kendal in the academic year of 2015/2016.