Abstract :
ABSTRACT
Rahmawati, Sintia. 2023. Analysis of Students? Difficulties in Writing Procedure Text
at Tenth Grade at SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Metro. An undergraduate thesis,
English Education Study Program, Teacher Training and Education Faculty.
Universitas Muhammadiyah Metro. Advisor (1) Bambang Eko Siagiyanto.,
M.Pd, Advisor (2) Fitri Palupi Kusumawati., M.Pd.B.I
Keyword : Influence, Difficulties in Writing, Procedure Text
The aim of this research is to find out the students? difficulties in writing
procedure text at SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Metro and to find out the factors influence
students? difficulties in writing procedure text at SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Metro. This
research is descriptive design using qualitative. The researcher takes 20 students
tenth grade pharmacy 1 of SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Metro as the sample of the
research. The researcher uses writing test and interview as the instrument of this
research. Then, the researcher uses data reduction, data display and conclusion
drawing or verification to analyzed data.
The result of this research is there are eight students feel difficulty in
determining the linguistic rules in the procedure text, namely distinguishing the use
of simple present tense sentences, the use of adverbs of time and the use of
command sentences. The difficulty experience by students when writing procedure
texts is in writing words that are less precise, that is due to the lack of vocabulary
own by students. There are six students made mistake in writing procedure text.
Twenty students? uses Indonesia and English to write procedure text because
students can not make sentence used English. The factor that influence students in
writing procedure text namely difficulties from internal factors sush as difficulties
in writing procedure text structure, procedure text language rules and difficulties
from external factors such as explanations from teacher that are not understood by
students. The difficulty experienced by students in writing procedure text from
internal factors is determining an interesting topic.