An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Writing Procedure Text by Using Pictures At SMK PP (Pertanian Pembangunan) Negeri Padang

ORIZA, AMINOVA and Lailatul, Husna and Fatimah, Tanjung (2015) An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Writing Procedure Text by Using Pictures At SMK PP (Pertanian Pembangunan) Negeri Padang. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

English is an international language and as people in modern era we should know English. English is used by people in many countries, including Indonesia. In Indonesia, English has been introduced and taught to students from junior high school until university level. It is one of primary subjects which students have to pass in order to continue their study. Based on the syllabus of vocational high school, vocational high school students have been learning some kinds of texts namely descriptive, narrative, recount, procedure and report text. Those kinds of texts are taught from the first to the third year, but they are different based on the students’ level. Procedure text is a text that is taught to the first year students in vocational high school. While the researcher observation in SMK PP Negeri Padang, the researcher found that the students still made mistakes in writing procedure text such as in writing grammatical structure, generic structure, goal, materials, and steps. Based on the explanation, the researcher wants to find out the difficulties of first year students in SMK PP Negeri Padang to write procedure text based on the sequence pictures. The researcher took sample by using cluster random sampling because the population had been grouped into classes. The researcher chose the sample class randomly because these classes were homogeneous; they had the same syllabus and materials. Here, the researcher chose among the class XI.1, XI.2 and XI.3, as the sample, and wrote these names of classes on three pieces of paper. The researcher took one piece of paper. The selected paper had the sample of this research Based on the data analysis, the writer found the students did not find difficulties in writing procedure text. In general it was 16 (80%) of students having no difficulties in writing procedure text. It means, the students had no difficulties in writing goal, materials, and goal. The students were said to have difficulties if the percentage was >50%. It means the second year students at SMK PP Negeri Padang had no difficulties in writing Procedure Text The teacher should give more explanation to the students. The students had difficulties in vocabulary and grammar. The teacher should give more exercise that can minimize their difficulties in writing procedure text. For the students, they are suggested to do more exercises about writing procedure text and all aspects about procedure text.

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