The advantages of daily journal writing in teaching recount text for the first grade students at MA Negeri I Kota Mojokerto

The research design is descriptive qualitative. The subject of this research is the teacher and the student of firts grade student in MAN I Kota Mojokerto. She was inviting to participate of this research because the students have some problem in writing. The research instrument used observation guidance, documentation, questioner guidance, and interview guidance. The data are collected by observation in a class, interview to the english teacher, documentation from the school, and questioner is supporting instrument for gained supporting data of the students responds. The result of the research, there are many advantages of using writing daily journal in teaching recount text of MAN I Kota Mojokerto. The advantages are the technique helped to student in learning English, student become easy to write in using daily activities, because they have enough vocabulary, the technique effective for teaching learning make student motivated to write well, student easy to arrange a simple paragraph with their vocabulary. Finally, it is expected to give usefull contribution to the teacher and the students in English teaching learning process in addition, this study is expected to help the other researcher as reference if they want to conduct the similar study about writing daily journal with different aspect of teaching learning.