Identifying The Vocational School Students’ Difficulties In Writing Descriptive Text

Raudatul J. A. B. Syafira, I Putu Sukmaantara, Rizky F. A Hudori

Abstract


Of the four skills in English, writing is a skill known as one of the most difficult skills to master. Therefore, there are still many students who experience many difficulties in the process, because there are several important components that students usually must fulfil in writing, such as organization, content, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, etc. In English, there are many kinds of texts that students usually learn in writing, one of which is descriptive text. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify the difficulties experienced by students in writing descriptive text. Using quantitative descriptive as the research design, this research reveals that all students still had difficulties in all components. If the difficulties experienced by students were sorted based on the most identified difficulties to the least would be; mechanics with 100%, grammar with 100%, vocabulary with 55%, organization with 45%, and content with 30%.  This research, therefore, has empirical and practical implications for both teachers and future researchers alike.


Keywords


students’ difficulties; descriptive text difficulties; writing difficulties in English.

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