Applying Cubing Strategy to Enhance Students' Writing Ability of Recount Text ( A Classroom Action Research at The Eight Grade Students of MTs Al-Awwabin Depok in Academic Year 2018/2019

This research is the classroom action research(CAR) and the purpose of this research is to enhance students? writing ability of recount text through cubing strategy. The subject of this research was the VIII B class of MTs Al-Awwabin Depok which consists of 17 students. The classroom action research based on Kemmis and Mc Taggart?s design that consists of four phases: planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. There are two kinds of data in this study: qualitative and quantitative data, the qualitative data is derived from the observation, interview. Meanwhile, the quantitative data is obtained from questionnaire, pre-test and post-test. This research conducted with three cycles used the cubing strategy and writing recount text as the teaching material.Based on the interpretation of the data, it can be said that there is an improvement on students? writing recount text and the implementation of cubing strategy was successful. The criterion of the success is if 85% of the students could pass the KKM (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal)which is 70. The finding of the research showed that the result of students have reached the KKM of writing in cycle 1 is41.17%, and in cycle 2 is 70.58%, then in the cycle 3 showed that 88.23% or 15from 17 students have reached the KKM based on the result of the test after the implementation of cubing strategy. It is also in line with the positive responses of the students after the implementation of the cubing strategy based on the questionnaire and observation. Moreover, based on the interview with the English teacher related to the students? responses, she said that the students more active and interested in learning writing with a cubing strategy