STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING RECOUNT AND NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

The aim in this research is to find out the students difficulties in writing recount and narrative text at eleventh grade of SMAS HKBP Sidorame. This research the researcher used descriptive qualitative. The data sources of this research take from students writing that the researcher come to their school. The data of this research are students writing that have students difficulties in recount and narrative text by students SMAS HKBP Sidorame. The instrument collecting data used documentation in the form of students writing, and for technique collecting data is documentation method in the form of written document. The result/ findings that the students’ difficulties in writing were mostly found in that many students’ had difficulty in writing. In the recount text section, the students had difficulties, which of the 45 sentences written by the student, there were 24 errors that became the researcher data. In narrative text, students have difficulty in which from 66 sentences, there were 45 errors that became the researcher data. It can be concluded that students are very difficult in writing a text because almost 75% of errors experienced by students from all sentences that have been written by students. Student’s difficulties are an unintentional act of someone in writing which results in a sentence or story not having a good structure and making it difficult for readers and listeners to understand. The researcher concludes that most of the students '' difficulties in writing are in grammar because of the lack of understanding in the preparation of sentences.