Students' ability in writing summary at English education department STKIP Qomaruddin Gresik

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Maulidah, Rizqi (2018) Students' ability in writing summary at English education department STKIP Qomaruddin Gresik. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Writing summary is important skill for students because to enable students to demonstrate their understanding of reading material to their teachers. It is to know how the students can summarize the text after understanding the reading text. These activities know the students can write by using their own words. The Students must be focus on the component of writing summary are Accuracy, Length, Focus, Paraphrasing and convention.The role of this component can measure the students’ ability in writing summary whether their ability is high, fair and low. The purposes of this research are to examine the students’ ability in writing summary and knew the difficulties and solve the problem in writing summary. The students’ ability refers to the students’ ability in writing summary if the students write based on the component of good summary are Accuracy, Length, Focus, paraphrasing and convention. Whereas writing summary refers to how students write the summary based on the procedure. The difficulties and solve theproblem is to knew the students got difficulties after done the summarizing then students can knew how to solve that problem. The researcher used qualitative descriptive in this research, because the researcher knew the phenomenon of the students product in summarizing the text. First, the researcher gave the text to summarize by the students to measure the students’ ability in writing summary. And the second the researcher gave questionnaire to knew the students difficulties and solve the problem. This study found the product from the students’ ability that many students’ have fair ability in accuracy, paraphrasing, focus and convention component of summarizing. But, students have good ability in length component because they have wrote based on the criteria. Students still fair in those 4 component they did not have wrote based on those criteria.