AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS: A CASE STUDY AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 LINGSAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

PARAMESWARI, CINDY CANTIKA (2015) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS: A CASE STUDY AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 LINGSAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

This study deals with an analysis of students’ competence in writing descriptive text. It is aimed at knowing students’ competence and problems in writing descriptive text. The population of this study is the students of SMAN 1 Lingsar at the second year (150 students), and were taken as its sample only 25% out of the number of population (36 students). The data of this study were collected through written test to know students’ competence in writing descriptive text. The researcher also applied close ended questions test to investigate and identify the problems faced by the students in writing descriptive text. Then, the data were analyzed quantitatively and descriptively. Based on the data analysis, it is found that the competence of the students in writing descriptive text is in fair category. From the test result, 6 students (17%) are classified into excellent category, 11 students (31%) are classified into good category, 2 students (6%) are classified into fair category, 7 students (19%) are classified as unsatisfactory and 10 students (27%) in category of unacceptable. While the result of the close ended question test shows that the main problem faced by the students is that they are very poor or weak in vocabulary. In other words, it can be said that they have very limited number of vocabulary. Other problem faced by the students is that they are unable to write sentence structure well and unable to write organization and the content of writing descriptive text respectively.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): analysis, competence, writing skill, descriptive text
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Wiwin Kartikawati
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2018 01:48
Last Modified: 06 Oct 2018 01:48
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/8347

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