THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT AT MTs. MIFTAHUL ULUM WIROWONGSO AJUNG IN THE 2016/2017 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Descriptive study of the students’ ability in writing recount text was implemented in this research because this research was not intended to verify any hypothesis, but to describe the students’ recount text ability. The area of this research was MTs. Miftahul Ulum Wirowongso Ajung. The respondent of this research was the population of the eighth grade students. The research area and respondent were choosen based on the purposive method, because the descriptive study had never been done in this school. The total number of the respondents was 36 students. The data of this research were collected from the students’ score of writing test, interview, and documentation. The result was analyzed by using SPSS. Based on the calculation, the mean score of the students was 59. As the result, the eighth grade students’ ability in writing recount text was categorized as average based on norm reference approach interpretation. Further, related to the students as achiever, based on the spread of score from the normal curve of standard deviation there were 0 students categorized as excellent achiever, 8 students categorized as high achievers, 21 students categorized as average achievers, 6 students categorized as poor achievers, and 1 student categorized as very poor achiever. The problems of writing that the eighth grade students experienced in writing a recount text were grammar and vocabulary