Abstract This study was aimed to determine the students ability in determining the linguistic elements in recount of biography text of elevent grade students of SMAN 8 Pontianak. The methods used in this study were interview method and descriptive method in quantitative form. The sample of this study was the elevent grade students of SMAN 8 Pontianak with the total number of 64 students. The result of the data analysis showed that students ability in determining pronouns in recount of biography text reached 52,86% and categorized as poor. The students ability in determining verbs in recount of biography text reached 87,72% and categorized as excellent. The student ability in determining conjunctions in recount of biography text reached 50,87% ang categorized as poor. The students ability in determining simplex sentences in recount of biography text reached 69,14% and categorized as good. Based on the analysis result, it can be concludes that the students ability in determining linguistic elements of recount of biography text reached 64,04% and categorized as good.  Keywords : Ability, Linguistic Features, Recount Text
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