An Analysis of Student’s Skills in Writing Descriptive Text for Tenth Grade in SMA Negeri 1 Banjar

Abstract

The present study aims to describe Students’ Skills and the difficulty faced by students in Writing Descriptive Text for Tenth Grade Students in SMA Negeri 1 Banjar. The design applied was qualitative research. The research subjects are X MIPA 1 Students of SMAN 1 Banjar who had difficulties when writing descriptive text. The data of this research are the result of students’ test results and the students’ answers in the open-ended questionnaire. The research instruments were a test and an open-ended questionnaire. Data reduction, data display and drawing conclusions were used to analyse the data. The result of this research shows that the students of X MIPA 1 writing skills are relatively low with a score of 60 which is lower than the target score of ≤ 70 and the students of X MIPA 1 have difficulty in writing descriptive text, the difficulties are difficulties in content, difficulties in grammar, and difficulties in vocabulary, difficulties in organization and spelling.