An Analysis of the Students’ Writing Procedure Text in Islamic Boarding School

Writing in English is a difficult skill for foreign language learners due to the involvement of multiple issues such as organization, purpose, audience, vocabulary, and mechanics. This research is qualitative descriptive research aims to find out the errors that the students made in writing procedure text based on surface strategy taxonomy and the difficulties that faced by the students. The participants were 18 of the third grade-C students of Alfalah Abu Lam U Islamic boarding school. This data involved documentation and interview. The results of documentation showed that 13 students made the errors in mis-formation or 40,35 %, 11 students made the errors in omission or 36,84 %, 6 students made the errors of addition or 12,28 % and 5 students made the errors in mis-ordering or 10,53 %. The data of interview and 5 students made the errors in mis-ordering or 10,53 %. The data of interview difficulties due to misunderstanding the lesson of procedure text. In addition, most of the students had difficulties in writing procedure text due to their lack of vocabulary.