TY - THES A1 - Mufida, Fatmawati Asa Fauziah PB - Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan UR - http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9341/ TI - The Use of Genre Based Approach on Students? Writing Recount Text Achievement AV - public Y1 - 2021/03// ID - eprintsunpak9341 N2 - ABSTRACT Writing is one of language skills that students learn in the class, and based on the pre- research observation, students still have difficulty in determining the correct grammar to write. An appropriate approach can be applied in the class to help students to overcome their difficulty in determining the grammar. This research was conducted to prove the effect of Genre Based Approach on students? writing recount text. This research uses pre-experimental method and one group pretest-posttest design. The sample was chosen by random sampling technique. The sample in this research is the second grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Cibungbulang. In the class there are 36 students. To collect the data, the researcher uses pre- test and post-test of their writing recount product. After collecting the scores of pretest and posttest, then they were analyzed by using t-test. The result of the analysis shows that the t- test at 0.05 significant is 21.25 whereas the t-table is 2.042. It can be concluded that the value of t-test is higher than the t-table. It shows that the null hypothesis is rejected (H0) whereas alternative hypothesis is accepted (Ha). It means that Genre Based Approach can help students to improve their writing ability. Keyword: writing skill, recount text, genre based approach, text M1 - Skripsi ER -