English Focus: Journal of English Language Education
Vol 2 No 1 (2018)

AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT (A CASE STUDY AT A SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN INDRAMAYU)

Ida Yulianawati (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Sep 2019

Abstract

This study investigates students? causes of students? difficulties, kinds of students? difficulties, and the most dominant problem in writing recount text written by ten students at a Senior High School in Indramayu, West Java. This study employed a qualitative research design, embracing characteristics of a case study. The data were obtained from collection of samples of students? recount texts. The findings revealed that most students have been able to implement the schematic structures and linguistic features of argumen texts, which indicates the ability of students to write the texts and to achieve its purpose. However, some students found difficulties in terms of the use of tenses, the use of vocabulary, and the use of specific participants. Based on the analysis of students? writing, it was found some causes that made students did some mistakes in writing recount texts. Based on these findings, it is recommended that explicit teaching be needed to develop students? writing skills.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

efj

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

English Focus was launched with the intention to make quality research output available for scholars in the field of language education. Although the focus is primarily on research on language education, we will also consider papers in other areas of applied linguistics such as language testing as ...