Institusion
Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji
Author
Heti, Hidayah
Gatot, Subroto
Muhammad, Candra
Subject
411 Writing Systems/Sistem Tulisan, Penulisan
Datestamp
2021-07-25 02:38:08
Abstract :
Writing is one of the important parts of English skills that should be
mastered by students besides listening, speaking, reading. T he function of writing
skills is the most effective way to show someone?s English proficiency, including
the ability and difficulties. The instruments of this research are the interview and
writing test as the support data. Therefore, the researcher conducted a descriptive
qualitative study analysis. The technique in analyse the data of the interview is a
descriptive analysis technique (percentage) and descriptive analysis technique
without percentage to analyse the writing test. The researcher conducted research
based on one research question. The research questions are ?What are the
students? writing difficulties in procedure text faced by the ninth grade students of
SMP N 10 Tanjungpinang in the academic year of 2019/2020? ?and ?What are the
dominant students? writing difficulties in procedure text faced by ninth grade
students of SMP N 10 Tanjungpinang in the academic year of 2019/2020??.
Based on the research question, the result of the research to conclude that the
students have difficulties in social function, structure text, language features, and
topic. The research shows the dominant factor students? writing difficulties in
procedure text is language features, like vocabulary and grammar which make the
students difficult when writing the procedure text.