This study aims at finding out how the use of Dictogloss Technique improves VIII grade students’ recount text writing ability. This is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) conducted in SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Rambipuji. The subjects of the study are 31 students of VIII grade at the school. The data were collected from writing tests and analyzed by using percentages analysis. The research target was 75% of the students achieved the score at least 65. The percentage result of the students’ writing test was as follows; in the cycle 1 test the score percentage was 65% of the students achieved the target score, and the score percentage of the cycle 2 was 77%. This leads to the conclusion that the students’ improved through Dictogloss Technique was due to the three reasons; first, the students could comprehend the meaning of some words they heard from the text, second, they could arrange the sentences from their own notes into good paragraph together with their friends, and third, the text they made before makes them easier to write their own texts.