THE CORRELATION BETWEEN WHOLE LANGUAGE APPROACHAND WRITING COURSE INTENSIVE TOWARD STUDENTS IMPROVEMENT IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXTAT SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 4 SOLOK

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The purpose of this research is to describe a correlation between teacher’s use of Whole Language Approach and students’ Writing Intensively to the students skill of  writing Recount Text. This study was particularly aimed at: 1. Identifying the way in which teacher use of whole language approach in English class, 2. Identifying students’ opinion about their writing intensively, 3. Identifying the students’ skill improvement in writing recount text.The design of this research was correlational. Population of this research was 171 students of the eleven grade at SMAN 4 Solok, they were divided into 5 classes. In choosing the sample, the writer used Simple Random sampling technique.Data were collected through interview, questionnaire, and test. The interview was used to identify the way in which the teacher use whole language approach in English class. The questionnaire was used to identify the students’ perception about their writing intensively in English class, and the writing test was used to identify students’ skill improvement to writing of recount text.The result of analyzing data of this study showed that: the teacher implemented  the Whole Language Approach, but the approach did not seem to give a contribution to the students’ improvement in writing recount text. It was indicated in the result of the data analysis showing that there was no significant correlation between students’ writing intensity and the result of their writing test (H₀).

Key Word: Whole Language Approach, Writing Course Intensive, Recount Text