Developing Students Writing Skill Through Free Writing Technique for Recount Text at The VIII Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Dampal Selatan

The findings of the research showed that free writing as effective in improving students’ skill in writing. It can be seen from the significant difference between the students’ mean score in pre-test and post-test. In pre-test experimental, the students’ mean score was 69.72 and the students’ score in post-test was 81.72. the lternative hypothesis of this research would be accepted if the t-test is higher than the t-table. While, if the t-test is smaller than the t-table the was 12.76 higher than the t-table value 2,06390. Based on the result, the Ha accepted. In other words, the use of free writing was effective to improve the students writing ability.