Students' difficulties in writing English descriptive text at seventh grade of SMP Dr. Soetomo Surabaya

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Khotimah, Kusnul (2020) Students' difficulties in writing English descriptive text at seventh grade of SMP Dr. Soetomo Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Writing an English descriptive text is not easy. Some students get difficulties when they write an English descriptive text. There are many factors that can influence the students’ difficulty in writing descriptive text, such as internally and externally. The research was aimed to investigate the students’ difficulties faced by the students in writing English descriptive textand to investigate the most common factors causing the students difficulties. This research used a qualitative method and the data was collected through questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire and interview was conducted to the students’ of VII C at SMP Dr.Soetomo Surabaya. This research found there are five difficulties faced by the students’ in writing English descriptive text. The five most highly rated from the respondent are vocabulary (24%), language (23%), content (20%), organization (17%), and mechanics (16%). There are four common factors that causing students’ difficulties such as less of time, less of practice, and less of motivation. The students get difficulties in writing English descriptive text because they are not familiar with the vocabulary and the sentence structure.Moreover,the students also confused in determining their ideas. This result of study are in line with the finding of previous study that vocabulary, language, content, organization and mechanics is common difficulties faced by the students