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ABSTRACT Rahmi Putri, 2314.012, Students’ Perception of Their Recount Text Writing Experience and Teacher’s Feedback at Second Grade Students of MTsN 6 Agam. This research was aimed to know the students’ perceptions on their Recount text writing experience and teacher’s feedback at second grade students of MTsN 6 Agam. This research was done because the researcher found that the students had different perceptions toward their Recount text writing experience. Those perceptions were some of the students said they had bad experience when writing recount text because they felt confuse to develop their ideas, difficult to use English in their text and used the approriate vocabularies, also could not write their sentences correctly. Another students had different perceptions, the students said that they could write recount text easily and did not found any problem when writing the recount text. The students’ perceptions toward the teacher’s feedback were, some student said that they did not understand with the feedback that provided by the teacher, which the teacher gave written feedback by using some corrections symbols without any comments or explanations, which made the students difficult to understand those symbols. The students needed more explanation from the teacher in understanding their mistakes. But another students said that they understood with the feedback that provided by the teacher and said the feedback that provided by the teacher could increase their skill in learning recount text. This research was descriptive quantitative research. The total population was 247 students and the researcher used random sampling in determining the sample. The researcher took 20% from the total of population and the sample was 49 students from seven classes. The researcher used close questionnaire as the instrument and used 5 points of Likert Scale; Strong Agree, Agree, Moderate, Disagree, and Strong Disagree to measure the students’ perception. Based on the analysis of the data, it was found that the students’ perception on their Recount text writing experience was on good category with mean of total score was 73%. It means that almost all of the students had good perceptions on their Recount text exeprience. The students’ perception toward teacher’s feedback was also on good category with the mean of total score was 82%. It means that almost all of the students had good perceptions toward the teacher’s feedback. Keyword: Students’ Perception, Recount Text, Teacher’s Feedback.