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The Background of this study is focused on the effective method to teach English especially writing on recount texts. The students who study English as second language still get difficulty in writing because writing is more complex if it is compared with the other skill. So the researcher thought that there should be a solution to solve that problem. The researcher tried to use concept map as a method solve the problem and to improve students writing ability especially on recount texts. This research is about the use of concept map as method to help and to improve students writing ability on recount texts of the Eight Grade Students of SMP H. Isriati Baiturrahman Semarang in the Academic Year of 2011/2012. Concept maps are tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts or propositions, indicated by a connecting line between two concepts. This research is aimed to find the answer to the following research questions:how is the use of using concept map to improve students writing ability in teaching recount texts? And the objective of research is to find out the use of using concept map to improve students writing ability in teaching recount texts.The population of the research was the eight grade students of SMP H Isriati Baiturrahman Semarang. The research method was an experimental research, which conducted in two classes; the experimental group (VIII A) and control group (VIII C) as sample. The VIII A was taught by using concept map, while the VIII C was taught without concept map (conventional method). The writer gave listening test to gather the data. The test had been tried out to find out the validity, reliability, difficulty level, and discriminating power before it was used to gather the data. The data were obtained by employing the relevant with pre test and post test. The formula that used to analyze the data was t-test. It was used to determine whether or not there was a significance difference between students score in experimental group and students score in control group.In the result of post test of experiment class was 75.58 which where higher than the control class 70.73. It means that writing a recount text by concept map was better than the writing recount text without concept map. The result of the calculation using the t-test showed that t value : 3. 446 and t table for α: 5% was 1.68. It means that t value was higher than t table {3.446> 1.68}. It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in the student writing score of the eighth year students of SMP H. Isriati in academic year of 2011/2012 between students who have been taught writing a recount text by using concept map and those who have been taught by using a conventional learning or lecturing.
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