This research aimed to investigate the type of sentence structure used in recounting text by English education students in the second semester. The data of this research took from 22 students in UIN Walisongo. The method of this study is qualitative design. The finding of this research show that students used simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, but no one used compound-complex sentence in their recount text. The researcher found that the most frequently used in their recount was simple sentence which obtained 58.11% of the whole number of sentence types found in students’ writing, and the second was compound sentence which obtained 32.47% of the whole number of sentence types found in students’ writing, the next type of sentence was complex sentence that obtained 9.40% in their writing, and the last type was compound-complex sentence, this type of sentence was obtain 0.00% because no one used this type of sentence. From the research above, the researcher concluded that the students’ writing was not good enough because they still can mix the type of sentence in their writing, and they still have problems with grammatical, and vocabularies. I hope students can develop their skill in writing.