The students' difficulties in writing short functional text based on ktsp curriculum at the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Of Palangka Raya

Apriana, Hasnawati (2009) The students' difficulties in writing short functional text based on ktsp curriculum at the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Of Palangka Raya. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Palangka Raya.

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Abstract

The problems of the study are; (1) What difficulties do the students have in writing short functional text?, (2) What strategies does the English teacher use to teach writing short functional text?. The aims the study are: (1) To describe the students difficulties in writing short functional text; (2) To know the applied strategies by English teacher of tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 of Palangka Raya in teaching writing short functional text.
The type of the study was descriptive method. The subjects of the study were 26 students and 1 English teacher. The techniques of data collection were observation, test, and interview. The data analysis used some procedures: (1) Data collection, (2) Data reduction, (3) Data display, (4) Conclusion drawing/ verification.
The result of the study showed that the difficulties faced by the tenth grade students in content of writing, which they had difficulties to present the fragmented information in their writings, the students who had difficulties in content of writing were 4 students. In organization of writing, in which their writing product were not good organization, the students who had difficulties in organization were 5 students. In sentence structure of writing, in which they had difficulties in diction and applying of those words, the students who had difficulties in sentence structure were 24 students. In grammar of writing, in which they had difficulties in grammar, ex: they had difficulties in using tenses, subject-verb, spelling, and punctuation. The students who had difficulties in grammar were 26 students. In addition, the strategies applied by the English teacher were Helper, Project and discussing strategy.

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