Students’ Problems in Writing Recount Text at Grade X SMAN 4 Sungai Penuh

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10.2991/assehr.k.200306.007How to use a DOI?

Keywords

students’ problems, writing, recount Text

Abstract

Writing is a difficult skill due to it has several processes that have to be followed by the students. In producing an effective writing product, the students have to know the writing components such as content, vocabulary, generic structure, language feature, and mechanics. This research aimed to analyze students’ problems in writing Recount Text at grade X SMAN 4 Sungai Penuh. This research was a descriptive research. Writing test was done by using a software namely Translog-II for collecting the data. The result found that most of the students had problems in writing recount text. Those problems were related to the writing components. They made 1.6% errors in organizing idea, 18.6% in vocabulary, 37.6% in grammar, 3,7% in generic stucture and 38.5% in mechanics. Thus, it can be concluded that most of the students’ problems were related to mechanics (38.5%) and grammar (37.6%). It can be concluded that writing commponent is the most difficult problem facedby student in writing recount text.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wahyuni Syafitri
AU  - Ratmanida
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/11
TI  - Students’ Problems in Writing Recount Text at Grade X SMAN 4 Sungai Penuh
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 37
EP  - 40
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200306.007
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.007
ID  - Syafitri2020
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