THE PROFICIENCY OF WRITING RECOUNT TEXT OF EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MTS MIFTAHUL FALAH BALONG KEMBANG JEPARA TAUGHT BY USING DICTOCOMP TECHNIQUE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Herlinawati, Diah Wahyu. 2013. The Proficiency of Writing Recount Text of Eighth Grade Students of MTs.MiftahulFalahBalongKembangJepara Taught by Using Dictocomp Technique in the Academic Year 2013/2014.Skripsi.English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty,Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (i) Drs.MuhSyafeiM.Pd, (ii) AhdiRiyono, SS, M.Hum. Key words:Dictocomp technique, writing, recount text. English is an important language for many purposes, as in communication, science, culture, education fields as well as international affairs. As we know that language can be spoken and written. In the world of education, students are expected to master in the English competence to support their skill, here is writing. But, sometimes the students have difficulties to express their writing because of many factors, they have to write and reconstruct some text. So they feel find difficult to determine their writing. Dictocomp is dictation and composition. It’s one of techniques that easy to learn and can be effective way to teach writing recount text. Recount is a type of genre, which has a social function to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. So, dictocomp can help the students easily to reconstruct recount text. The objective of the research is to find out whether there is any significant difference of the proficiency of writing recount texts of the eighth grade students of MTs.MiftahulFalahBalongKembangJepara before and after taught being by using dictocomp technique in the academic year 2013/2014. This is an experimental research. The writer uses quasi experiment research because its study done by giving pre-test and post-test for one class. The writer will discuss several possibilities for solving an actual problem by gathering data, analyzing and interpreting them. This intended to make systematic and accurate that concerning the fact and the feature of research. From the analysis, the writer finds that the best score that the students achieve before being taught by using dictocomp technique is 75 and the lowest score is 30. While the average score (mean) of the students is 51.15; the median is 43.6; the modus is 45.78 and the standard deviation is 13.19. With that result, the student’s proficiency is Adequateas highest score. After they have been taught by using dictocomp technique, the English score that the students achieve is 85 and the lowest score is 35. Meanwhile, the average is 62.5, the median is 53.9, the modus is 60.16 and deviation standard is 13.83. The level of of the proficiency of writing recount texts of the eighth grade students of MtsMiftahulFalahBalong in the academic year of 2013/2014 after being taught by using dictocomp technique is Good as highest score although it was several students get it and most of them in the Adequate grade.The result of ttest is 6.97.So, there is a significant difference between the proficiency of writing recount text of the eighth grade students of MtsMiftahulfalahBalong in the academic year of 2013/2014 before and after being taught by using dictocomp technique. Based on the fact, the students should pay more attention in teacher’s explanation and also practice a lot in writing. Dictocomp technique can be effective to teach writing in order that the teaching learning process is more interesting. Because using dictocomp technique as teaching can develop the students in all four language skills in an integrative way. It can also help the students to develop short-term memory. Students practice retaining meaningful phrases or whole sentences before writing them down. The other hand it can motivate to the students to write English