Indonesian EFL Students’ Problems In Writing Recount Text

Writing is the way to express an idea or thought in words to transfer informationfor readers. Commonly, writing is the hardest thing for EFL learners becausethey have to practice more and through a long process to create good writing. Inthis research, the researcher is interested to discover the EFL learners’ problemin constructing written recount text at tenth grade of SMK Muhammadiyah 1Banjarmasin academic year 2017/2018. Therefore, the researcher employed adescriptive qualitative study and used purposive sampling as the samplingtechnique. The participants were 32 EFL learners of X- B Accountancy class.The researcher used test, interview, and documentation to gather the data. Theoutcome of the study revealed that the EFL learners faced two main problems,namely grammar and vocabulary aspect. Besides, there are still other problemsfaced by some of the EFL learners in terms of content, organization, as well asmechanics. Those problems came from the EFL learners’ lack of practice inwriting during the class session. Therefore, the researcher suggests the EFLteacher help the EFL learners to overcome the problems based on this research.The teacher also has to discover the solution to enhance the EFL learners’capability in constructing written recount text