An Analysis Of Students Ability In Writing Descriptive Paragraph Of The Second Semester at English Language Education FKIP-UIR

N., Nadila Mudea (2020) An Analysis Of Students Ability In Writing Descriptive Paragraph Of The Second Semester at English Language Education FKIP-UIR. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Descriptive paragraph is the one of paragraph types that depicts about place, person and thing in such clear details that the readers can easily visualize the places, objects and people described, or can feel that they are involved in the experience. Therefore, the aimed of this study is to know the second semester students writing abilities in writing descriptive paragraph. This research conducted by using qualitative. The populations were the second semester students of academic year 2018/2019. The total of students were 98 students. To minimize or to get the sample, the researcher applied two techniques. First, the researcher decided the class, it used simple random technique. And the second the researcher used quota sampling technique to choose which students that will be taken. To obtain the data the researcher used classroom documentation. The researcher analyze the data by described the interview from three raters. Furthermore, the researcher calculatd the result from three raters then describe it. The result of this research showed that the second semester students abilities in writing descriptive paragraph was good. It can be seen there were 62% students belongs to good category, 33% students belong to excellent category and 3% students was belong to average category. Additionaly, based on the aspect the students had problem with using grammar and sentence structure (18%) but they have understood how to connect their paragraph with the topics by called content (22%). In fact, there was no sigificant different score between both, so it means that the second semester student at English language education-UIR in writing descriptive paragraph was good. But, the next teacher or lecturer should had the other strategy or technique to teach the students on grammar and sentence structure.

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