A Descriptive Study on the Ability of English Writing in Recount Text at Darul Hijrah

Pajrian Noor, Alifa Sandra Rahmawati, Umi Rokhyati

Abstract


Writing in English is one of the important skills that students actively change their passive. knowledge and information into their own language. Based on the 2013 curriculum, students must have excellent English skills for writing skill, because students are able to express functional texts and simple short essays in the form of recount text for interaction in daily life. The purpose of this study was to find the ability of English writing recount texts of class VIII students of Darul Hijrah Islamic Boarding School for males. Descriptive quantitative method that researchers used to describe students' ability to write recount texts, and the sample of this study was 28 students. The researcher found that the highest score in writing recount text was 84, which was considered a good category, and the lowest score in writing recount text was 47.5, which was considered a fair category. In addition, in the good category was 5 students (17.8%), 15 students (75%) participated in the fair category and 2 students (7,2%) from the less categories. Meanwhile, there are no students (0%) in the category of very good and poor. In the final, more than half (75%) eight grade students of Darul Hijrah Islamic Boarding School achieved a fair category.

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