STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING EFL DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Divani, Faradella Agnesia STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING EFL DESCRIPTIVE TEXT. Jurnal Pendidikan Edutama, - (-). -. ISSN P-ISSN: 2339-2258 E-ISSN: 2548-821X (Submitted)

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Abstract

Abstract Writing is generally recognized as a difficult task for almost of EFL students. Indonesian students learn English as a foreign language (EFL), therefore, they have the difficulties in EFL writing text. It is not only in creating and organizing the ideas, but, they should also translating the ideas from Indonesian language to English. Analyzing students’ text is very important, because it can help the English teacher know the students’ difficulties in writing and also help the English teacher solve the students’ problem in writing. The purposes of this study were to find out the students’ difficulties and the causes of the students’ difficulties in writing EFL descriptive text. By using qualitative research, the researchers got the data from documentation, questionnaire and interview. The findings describe about the students’ difficulties and the causes of difficulties in writing descriptive text. In content, it could be explain that the average students’ score is 15,4 or 47,4% from all students. In organization, the average score is 15,3 or 46,8% from all students. In vocabulary, the average score is 12,5 or 31,2% from all students. In grammar, the average score is 13,8 or 38% from all students. And the last in mechanic, the average score is 5,7 or 6,5% from all students. Or it can be said that the students still had the ability in the content, organization and mechanic aspects. From the analysis which had been done by the researcher, it can be concluded that the students had difficulties in grammar and vocabulary (linguistic difficulty). And the causes of the students’ difficulties were they are lack of interest in learning and practice. Beside that, they are lack of knowledge about grammar, vocabulary in the EFL text. Keywords: EFL writing, descriptive text, students’ difficulty

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