This study discusses about the influence of Emotional Intelligence on students’ writing achievement of recount text in solving the students’ problem in writing skill. This research is aimed: (1) To explain students’ emotional intelligence at Tenth Grader of MAN Kendal in the academic year of 2018/2019. (2) To explain students’ writing achievement of recount text at Tenth Grader of MAN Kendal in the academic year of 2018/2019. (3) To find out the influence of students’ emotional intelligence on their writing achievement at Tenth Grader of MAN Kendal in the academic year of 2018/2019. The method used in this research is quantitative. Quantitative research emphasizes the analysis to the numerical data that analyzed by statistics method. The data research that has collected then analyzed by statistics technique and the hypothesis was tested by simple regression analysis. To find out the significance of Emotional Intelligence on Students’ Writing Achievement of Recount Text at Tenth Grader of MAN Kendal in the academic year of 2018/2019 was by comparing the price of of Freg and Ftable. If Freg< Ftable so H0 is not accepted (not significant), but if Freg> Ftable so H0 is accepted (significant). Then, based on the data obtained Freg in the amount 13,212 with significance level 5% is 3,94. It means that Freg = 13,212 > Ftable = 3,94. It can be concluded that variable of emotional intelligence has positive and significant influence on students’ writing achievement of recount text.