The students’ ability in writing recount text at 6 Grade Students in English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan

This research is intended to investigate Ability of students in Writing Recount Text at 6 Grade Students’ in English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan The researcher focused to know the students'’ability in writing recount text and also to find out what extent they apply the generic structure,language features and social function of recount text. The problem of writing skill recount text at 6 grade students’ of English department IAIN Padangsidimpuan are: 1)The students were not comprehend the text well when they write, 2)The students were lack of vacabularies and rarely try to predict the maening unfamiliar of words, 3)The students were lack of motivation in learning English and 4)The students are difficult in understanding the generic structure ,language features and social function of recount text. The problems that faced by students in writing narrative text were: 1) The students are lack on vocabulary, 2) The students are confused to write and did not how to express their writing, 3) The teachers did not have various technique in teaching writing, 4) Students have difficulty arranging a word in writing. This research used quantitative method with pre-test and post-test design. The populations were all of the students Students in English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The sample was TBI 2 class that consisted of 20 students. The data were collected by giving test in essay test form and analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) with T-test. The students’ writing Recount text ability at 6 Grade English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan recount text was 1.272. The mean score was 63.60. The students difficulties in writing recount text were forming sentence, lack of vocabulary and error in arranging recount text based on the language features. The efforts of lecturer to solve the students’ difficulties were the lecturer give mire exercises to made students more understand in writing recount text, the students asked to open the dictionary when met with the unfamiliar vocabulary and reexplained the material about recount text