academic year. The design of this research is classroom action research. The research subject is VIII D that consists of 33 students. Test and observation checklist are used to obtain the data. The aspects of scoring writing test are grammar, vocabulary, mechanics and organization. This research was conducted in two cycles by following the procedure of the action research: preliminary study, planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The finding showed that the studentsÂ’ writing ability was 61% in Cycle 1 and 82% in Cycle 2. The observation result from 43% of studentsÂ’ activeness in Cycle 1 and 75% of studentsÂ’ activeness in Cycle 2. Based on the result of this research, the use of roundtable technique can help students in writing recount text and build their responsibility. The criteria of success was 82%, it is concluded that the use of roundtable technique was able to improve the eighth grade studentsÂ’ writing ability at SMP Negeri 1 Jombang in the 2014/2015 academic year by giving opportunity to the students to write their responses related to the topic, discussing about recount text that given from the teacher, and answering the question based on the given passage.