Students’ ability in writing procedure text at eight grade SMPN 6 Padangsidimpuan

Rabbawany, Wahyu A. (2021) Students’ ability in writing procedure text at eight grade SMPN 6 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Writing is produced in the form of written text which is used to deliver the writers ideas and meanings to the readers. Some of the students still have the difficulties to write what they have heard or read. This thing caused students seldom to do writing activity in the school moreover in the house. It makes students not accustomed to face English words, so when students asked to write a text, the students can‟t write what they have heard or read because students not accustomed to write. This research was focus to know the students‟ ability in writing procedure text at eight grade SMPN 6 Padangsidimpuan. This research used quantitative research with descriptive method. Quantitative descriptive aims to describe with systematically and accurate of fact about the population. The instrument in collecting data was writing test, it was to write a procedure text consist of the generic structure. The researcher used the generic structure of precedure text as indicator, they are goal, ingredients and steps. Each indicator has the different score, the researcher gave 10 score for indicator of goal because it shows the purpose of the text. In the indicator of ingredients the researcher gave 30 score because in this indicator the students only mention the ingredients that used in the text. While in the indicator steps, the researcher gave 60 score because in this indicator the students should explain the steps one by one from the first until finish. Based on the result of the research, it was found that the students' ability to write procedure text in class VIII-1 of SMPN 6 Padangsidimpuan was in the good category or a score of 76.5; This is obtained from the results of the average score of the students in taking the test by analyzing the understanding of writing the procedure text. The hypotesis of this research is “the students‟ ability in writing procedure text at eight grade SMPN 6 Padangsidimpuan is in enough category”. Then, the hypothesis proposed was "the students‟ ability in writing procedure text in class VIII-1 students of SMPN 6 Padangsidimpuan is in good category". So, from the results of hypothesis testing is found that the hypothesis is rejected. This can be proven from Z count = -8.63.

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