The Ability of The Second - Year Junior High School Students In Writing Descriptive Text

This study aims to examine the ability of the students in the second grade of SMPN 04 Sigli in writing descriptive text and in difficulties in writing descriptive text. Mixed methods were employed to answer the research problem. Qualitative data were analyzed descriptively and quantitative data were statistically analyzed. The qualitative data findings from the document analysis in this study exhibited that the students had many difficulties in writing descriptive text. The most problems faced by the students were grammar and vocabulary with a total mean of 76 and 81. Regarding to students’ writing descriptive text-ability, the results of questionnaires showed that most of the students agree that they had difficulties in grammar and vocabulary, with the mean of 2.96. This suggested that teacher could improve their teaching skill in the descriptive text in an interesting way.