THE EFFECT OF ESTAFET WRITING TECHNIQUE ON WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

test form and analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the research showed that the mean score of post-tests was 78.50 and mean score of pre-tests was 54.00. So, there was significant effect of using estafet writing technique toward students’ writing recount text at the 11 th grade of SMA IT Dhiaul Fikri.


LATAR BELAKANG
Language is a complex tool that allows us to encode, decipher and communicate our thoughts and experiences through words that combine and form a sentence, furthermore, Language is a set of words that are used as "names" for various things, (Yule 2020;Fitch, 2017). From those statements can be said that Language is a tool There are four macro skills that must be mastered by students, namely: listening, speaking, reading, and writing and this contrasts with the "micro-skills" such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (Supina 2018). Learning English is very important in the era of globalization for our future careers. One of the skills that must be mastered is writing. When someone writes, they will automatically read what they write even though they read silently, but what they read is not necessarily to write.
Many students are poor in writing English in their class and Many students do not like writing lesson because they considered writing is complicated or the way of lesson may monotonous, (Hutasuhut 2021). According to (Ningrum, 2013) and (Qamariah, 2020), stated the students can deliver their messages to their readers by writing because of writing is a productive skill.
In this modern era, teachers can find a variety of attractive methods or strategies in teaching. This is a way for students to be more interested and not feel bored in learning especially in learning English. As states by Noom-ura (2013) That similar with Hutasuhut (2021), writing is an activity to arrange or relate some words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs become a good written text. Furthermore, writing related to the process of describing a language to produce a message so that will have meaning. Acording to Lubis (2014) stated writing is an activity for producing and expressing. It is producing the words and sentences than it expresses with the meaning of ideas, thus writing skill is the activity to transfer ideas through words and sentences, the idea will change to scientific.
From above explanation, the researcher can get the conclusion that writing is a process of finding ideas to share understanding to the reader through sentence or paragraph. By doing writing activity, we can write all things so it can be shared to the young generation as a final piece of written text.

Purpose of Writing
Every written text has a purpose. Even the text is written in a simple word such as advertisement has a purpose: to persuade the reader to buy the thing they sell. Harmer (2007) stated that there are some roles that teacher must concern during process of the teaching of writing. First, the teacher should role as motivator to make the students enjoy the activities through creating the nice learning atmosphere, persuading the benefits of the activity, and encouraging them to have better efforts to achieve their best writing.
Second, the teacher should be ready to become a resource. When the students are doing more extended writing tasks, the teacher must be ready to supply information and language needed by the students. Besides, the teacher must also ensure the students about the existence of the teacher to give them advice and suggestions in a constructive and tactful way. For example, in the process approach, the teacher facilitates the students" writing by providing input or stimulus. Last, the teacher must provide a positive feedback.

METODE PENELITIAN
The approach which used in this study is quantitative research. In this research, the researcher uses pre-experimental design by using one group pre-test and post-test design.
According to Sugiyono (2015)     The researcher shared the paper of the test and answered sheets.
3) The researcher explained the tips to answer. 4) The students answered question, 5) The researcher collected the students answer, 6) The last, the researcher checked the students answered and counted their score.

HASIL DAN PEMBAHASAN
In order to find the effect of Estafet In order to get description of the data clearly and completely, the researcher presented them in histogram on following figure: Figure. Description data of pre-test The figure described the students score based on the interval classs. It can be seen the comparison between the highest score and the lowest score. From the histogram of the students' score of pre-tests shown that the highest interval 60 -69 was 3 students and the lowest score interval 20 -29 was 2 students.

After Using Estafet Writing Technique
In post-test of experimental class, the researcher calculated the result that had been gotten by the students in answering the question (test) after the researcher did the treatment by using Estafet Writing Technique. The researcher gives them a test about recount text.
After getting students score in posttest, the researcher arranged it from the low score to the high score in interval class form. The computed of the frequency distribution of the students' score can be applied into table frequency below: In order to get description of the data clearly and completely, the researcher presents them in histogram on the following figure : Figure.  pre-test at interval 20 -29 and in post-test got score at interval 60 -66.
In order to get description of the data clearly and completely, the researcher presented them in histogram on following -29 was 2 students and post-test in interval 60 -66 was 3 students. Based on the description above, it can be concluded that students score in post-test was higher than the students score in pre-test.

Pembahasan
The research was conducted to find