The Descriptive Study of The Eighth Grade Students' Recount Text Writing Ability at SMPN 6 Jember in the 2014/2015 Academic Year

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to describe the eighth grade students’ recount text writing ability at SMPN 6 Jember in the 2014/2015 academic year, to describe the students’ score which are categorized excellent, good, fair, poor, and very poor, to describe students’ score of writing ability based on writing aspect. This research was a descriptive research and the research respondents were the students of 8B of SMPN 6 Jember in 2014 and 2015 academic year. The data were collected from the students' writing test score, interview and documentation. Based on the analysis, the students’ writing ability in recount text writing ability was classified as “Fair” category or 67.08. It was on the range score 60 – 69. The average score in the aspect of mechanics was 67.7 or “Fair”, in the aspect of content was 69.4 or “Fair”, in the aspect of grammar was 63.9 or “Fair”, in the aspect of vocabulary was 63.27 or “Fair” category, and in the aspect of organization was 71.9 or “Good” category. This means that 8B students' recount text writing ability was relatively fair.