THE ABILITY IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 PEKANBARU

Abstrak / Ringkasan

The objectives of this research were to find out the ability of the tenth grade
students at Senior High School 2 Pekanbaru in writing recount text and to find out
the factors that influence the ability in writing recount text of the tenth grade
students at Senior High School 2 Pekanbaru. In this research, the research design
was a descriptive research. The population of this research was the tenth grade
students at Senior High School 2 Pekanbaru 2017/2018. It consisted of eight
classes; the number of population was 288 students. The sample of this research
was 36 students taken from one classess, They where X MIPA. Based on the data
analysis, the researcher concluded thatthe students are low in vocabulary mastery,
the writer can be conclude it because, in doing the test, the students are still
difficulty to translate from Indonesia into English, they have the difficulty to
translate phrase, statement andcommon vocabulary.The researcher see from the
result of writing test that there are 4 student (11.11%) score 80 – 100 (very good
category), 21 students (58.33%) get the score 66 – 79 (good category), 6 students
(14%) get score 73 – 79, 8 students (22.22%) get score 56 – 65 (enough category),
3 students (8.33%) get score 46 – 55, 0 student (0%) get score 0 – 45 (fail
category).The students get difficulty in choosing vocabulary and grammar. It
means that they confused or obscured and limited knowledge of the subject. The
students get the difficulty to differently the part of recount text or the generic
structure of recount text.

Keywords: Writing Ability, Recount Text

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