The students’ ability in writing descriptive text at sixth semester English Department of State Islamic University Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan

Nurhasani, Rodia (2024) The students’ ability in writing descriptive text at sixth semester English Department of State Islamic University Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research aims to know the students‘ ability in writing descriptive text at sixth semester of English department of State Islamic University Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan. This research applied quantitative and qualitative approach by descriptive research. The subject of this research were students at sixth semester of English department. They were 60 students and the writing subject lecturer. The researcher gave a writing test to students to obtain the data to make into the result of the data. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the following steps: collecting the data, scoring data, calculating the data, describe the interview result from the students and lecturers to describe the students’ ability, difficulties and the solutions. Based on the data analysis, the researcher found that the students’ ability in writing descriptive text was very good/ very high category. It was 80.51. Then, the students’ difficulties were lack in grammatical features, lack of vocabulary verb types and adverb types, difficult also in constructing sentences that was how to connect the previous sentence to next sentence in different tense namely in present simple and past simple, and the last was lack of practicing in writing. The last, the solutions were given were teaching or reviewing again the topic, giving more practice, giving the evaluation, reminding and reminding students to be aware and having theirself willing and the motivation to write everyday writing and become the writing as the hobby and remembering the students the importances or advantages of writing as well

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