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This research was based on the problems were faced by the students at grade X high school 1 VII Koto Sungai Sariak, they often face difficulties in writing recount texts. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of using experiential learning on students’ writing skill of recount text. The design of this research is experiment. The population and sample of this research were the students of grade Xsocial scienceof high school 1 VII Koto Sungai Sariak, Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatera, the academic year 2014/2015. The samples of the research were taken by using random sampling technique. The total of sample were 60 students, the sample were grade X.3 social science as experimental class that consisted of 30 students and grade X.4 social scienceas control class that consisted of 30 students. This research was conducted in five meetings by using Experiential Learning in experiment class and grammar translation method in control class. The research started by observation to sample class to see the ability of students, before doing treatment. At the end of this research, the researcher gave posttest to know the result after doing treatment. The technique to analyze the data was t-test formula. It was used to determine whether there is or there is not a significant difference between the average score of the experimental and the control class. The average of posttest on experimental class was 73.20 which were higher than the average of posttest on the control class 66.97. Based on the calculation result of t-test, it was obtained tcalculated (1.75) was higher than the ttable (1.67). Since the tcalculated was higher than ttable, the hypothesis is accepted. It can be concluded that applying experiential learning gave significant effect in writing skill at high school 1 VII Koto Sungai Sariak, Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatera.
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