An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Writing Analytical Exposition Text in MAN 1 Pasaman Barat
<p> The purpose of this research was to analyze students' difficulties in writing analytical Exposition</p>
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One of the most important language skills is writing. Writing is a skill that requires the ability to organize text effectively in alignment with the purpose of communication and context. One of the text types that was taught was analytical exposition text, which aimed to provide an argument or opinion on a topical. However, many students still experienced various error in writing this text, both in terms of structure and language. Some problems that were found were: first, repetition of the same error in the assignment, second, students had difficulty choosing the right words for their writing. This study aimed to identify the types of writing errors commonly Made by students and the main causes of students' errors in writing assignment. This study used a Mixed method design, combining quantitative and qualitative methods in one study. The informant were XI IPS 2 students of MAN 4 Agam, consisting of eight informants: seven students and one English teacher. This study used purposive sampling. Data were collected using instruments in the form of documentation from students writing results and interview. Technique of data analysis was conducted through data collection techniques, data condensation, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The result showed that the forms of students error in writing Analytical Exposition Texts were grammar, lexical, and discourse. These errors tended to be high, with an Percentage from two writing results written by students about analytical exposition text. It was found that the omission 25%, addition 10,01%, misformation 12,79%, and misordering 17,55%. In addition, it was found that 9,82% lexical, 8,33% cohesion, and 15,47% coherence. In addition, the finding also revealed the causes of students error in the form of cognitive limitation, lack of feedback, and psychological factor that affected student writing, which were also related to the aspects of grammar, lexical, and discourse.
This research aimed to investigate errors in the use of grammatical cohesive devices based on Hasan and Halliday’s theory. The study focused on identifying the types of errors and most frequent categories of errors in grammatical cohesion in analytical exposition texts written by eleventh-grade students at SMAN 1 Tilatang Kamang. This research conducted due to some problems arose and reasonable to be identified were students still facing the difficulty to develop their arguments into good sentences and lack of grammar and ability to write. Data was collected from 35 students' assignments on topics provided by the teacher. A qualitative approach was used for data analysis. The results indicated that learners made errors in reference, conjunction, and substitution. Specifically, 67% of the errors were in reference, 32% in conjunction, and 1% in substitution. Although errors in substitution were infrequent and none were found in ellipsis, this does not mean students never faced issues with these categories. Instead, it suggests that students might have avoided these complex categories or that written language employs these cohesive devices more frequently than spoken discourse.
This research was aimed at finding out the effect of using discovery learning method toward student’s reading comprehension on analytical exposition text in SMA N 1 Payung Sekaki. The rationality of this research was based on the student’s problems in reading comprehension when learning English. First, students have difficulties in comprehending analytical exposition text. Second, students do not understand the material analytical exposition text. Third, students have lack of motivation in learning This research employed quantitative method. In this research, the researcher used quasi-experimental research design by comparing two classes. The sample of this research was the 11th grade students at SMA 1 Payung Sekaki. The research instrument of this research was reading test, which were tested for pre-test and post-test. The data was analyzed by using SPSS 22. The result of the research indicated that there was significant effect of students reading comprehension between the students who were taught by using discovery learning method and without using discovery learning method. It can be seen from the calculation of the data in one sample t test and paired sample t-test it showed the significance of 2-Tailed was 0,000 0,05 so that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. It can be concluded, there is significant effect of using discovery learning method.
ABSTRAK Afika Usman (2317046) “Analysa Kesulitan Siswa dalam Menulis Teks Analitikal Eksposision Kelas XI MAN 1 Pasaman Barat”, Skripsi, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bukittinggi (IAIN Bukittinggi). Penelitian ini di latar belakangi oleh permasalahan dari siswa MAN 1 Pasaman Barat, fokus kepada kelas 11 IPA 1 dalam menulis. Permasalahan pertama yang ditemukan adalah siswa memiliki kesulitan dalam mengembangkan sebuah teks analitikal ekposisi. Kedua, terdapat banyaknya kesalahan dalam penggunaan grammar misalnya dalam artikel, huruf besar, to be, kata kerja, dan masih banyak lagi. Permasalahan yang ketiga adalah dalam menulis paragraph terdapat hanya ada dua kalimat di setiap bagian struktur paragraphnya. Jadi, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan tipe-tipe kesulitan siswa dalam menulis teks analytikal ekposisi dan penyebab-penyebab kesulitan dalam menulis teks analitikal exposisi. Metode pada penelitian ini adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Data ini telah di ambil dari kelas 11 IPA 1 MAN 1 Pasaman Barat terdiri dari 25 siswa. Data ini telah di kumpulkan melalui test menulis dan interview. Dengan test menulis, siswa diminta untuk menulis sebuah teks analitikal ekposisi dengan memilih sebuah topic yang telah di sediakan oleh peneliti. Kemudian, ketika wawancara, peneliti memilih 10 siswa dan satu orang guru bahasa inggris yang akan di wawancarai dengan 10 pertanyaan untuk menentukan penyebab siswa kesulitan dalam menulis teks analitikan ekposisi. Hasil dari penelitian ini terlihat bahwa kecakapan grammar adalah tipe yang paling sulit dalam menulis teks analitikal ekposisi. Kemudian, disusul oleh organisasi dari teks, pengejaan kata, dan tanda baca. Temuan lainnya adalah tentang penyebab siswa kesulitan dalam menulis teks analitikal ekposisi. Peneliti menemukan bahwa linguistik adalah penyebab yang paling tinggi dalam menulis teks analitikal ekposisi. Kemudian, diikuti oleh kesulitak psikologi dan kesulitan koknitive. Kesimpulannya, tipe yang paling sulit dalam menulis teks analitikal ekposisi adalah kecakapan grammar. Penyebab yang paling sulit dalam menulis teks analitikal ekposisi adalah kesulitan linguistic. Kata kunci: kesulitan, menulis, teks analytical ekposition ABSTRACT Afika Usman (2317046) "Analysis of Students' Difficulties in Writing Exposition Analytical Texts at Second Grade of MAN 1 Pasaman Barat", A thesis, State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi (IAIN Bukittinggi) This research background was motivated by the problems of second grade of MAN 1 Pasaman Barat, focus on XI IPA 1class in writing. The first problems found were the students’ has difficulties in developing an analytical exposition text. The second, there were many errors in use of grammar especially in articles, capital letters, to be, verb, and so on. The third problem was in writing paragraph there were only two sentences in each part of paragraph structure. Hence, the purposes of this research were to find out the types of students’ difficulties in writing analytical exposition texts and the causes of difficulties in writing analytical exposition texts. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative research. The data was taken from class XI IPA 1 MAN 1 Pasaman Barat consist of 25 students. The data was collected through writing test and interview. In the writing test, students were asked to write an analytical exposition text by choosing a topic that has been determined by the researcher. Then, in the interview, the researcher chose 10 students and one English teacher who would be interviewed with 10 questions to find out the causes of students' difficulties in writing analytical exposition texts. The results showed that grammar accuracy was the most types of students’ difficulties in writing. Then, it could be continued by organization of text, spelling word correctly and the end was punctuations. The other founding was about the causes of students’ difficulties in writing analytical exposition text. The researcher found that the linguistic is the most of the causes of students’ difficulties in writing analytical exposition. Then, continued by the psychology difficulties and cognitive difficulties. In summary, the most types of students’ difficulties in writing analytical exposition text were grammar accuracy. The most causes of students’ difficulties in writing analytical exposition text were linguistic difficulties. Keywords: difficulty, writing, analytical exposition text
Afifah Mardhiyah (2316072) “An Analysis of Morphological Error in Writing Analytical Exposition Grade XI SMA N 3 Bukittinggi, A Thesis, State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, 2021. This research background was trigerred by students’ error at Grade XII of SMA N 3 Bukittinggi. Firstly, the students wrote “fast food is not good for healthy” she put bound morpheme “y” at the end of the word “health” which was wrong. Secondly, the students cannot place the morpheme “the, a, an, or of” correctly. For example, “a hour” instead of “an hour” or “a student” instead of “the student”. The research questions of this research are what is the morphological error that students make in their analytical exposition text and what are the dominant errors that students make in their analytical exposition text. The purpose of this research were to find out the morphological error that student’s make in their analytical exposition text and to find out the dominant errors that students make in their analytical exposition text. This research used a descriptive quantitative research method with grade XII students as the research population. There were 32 students taken as the research sample selected through purposive sampling technique. The data were collected through writing test. In the writing test, the researcher gave the students instruction to write analytical exposition consists of three paragraphs each paragraph should be filled by six sentences. The students asked to write it relates to the theme that the reseacher gave. After that, the researcher collected the students’ test. The results of this study showed that students’ morphological error in written analytical exposition at grade XII of SMA N 3 Bukittinggi were 308 errors. It shown that, firsly, in omission type, there were 45% of total errors. Secondly, there were 23% of total errors in miss-ordering. Lastly, there were 16% of total errors both addition and miss-formation type.
ABSTRACT Zuliani, 2314.144 An Analysis Of Students’ Ability In Writing Analytical Expositon Text at The Eleventh Grade of Senior High School 1 Canduang. This research aimd at describing the second grade students’ writing ability in analytical exposition text SMA N 1 Canduang. The researcher uses descriptive quantitative research design . this study concern on analytical exposition text. Which are written by XI class of SMA N 1 Canduang. The total population was 100 students’, distributed into four classes, 2 classes of IPA and 2 classes IPS. 2 IPA and 2 IPS were used as reseach sample, the four classes concisted of 25 students. In selecting sample, the researcher used stratified cluster random sampling. To collect the data the researcher used writing test. The result of the data analysis showed that the students’ writing ability on an analytical exposition text at SMA N 1 Canduang was Good . Base on the result there are one students’ who are in poor level, four students’ in moderate level, and then, five teen students’ in Good level. At last, one students’ in Very Good level. Overall, the ability of the eleventh grade of Senior High School 1 Canduang is in proficient level.
ABSTRACT Ratna Dewi 2315.133. The Effect of Using Blog toward Students’ Motivation to Write Analytical Exposition Text at SMKN 1 Baso Class XI This research was done due to several problems faced by the second grade students at SMKN 1 Baso related to the motivation in writing. They had lack of motivation in writing. Using media is one of the alternative ways to solve the problem about motivation. One of the media is blogThis research was aimed at discovering the effect of using blog toward students’ motivation to write analytical exposition text at SMKN 1 Baso class XI. The design of this research was experimental research. The data were gotten through questionnaire. The population of this research were the second grade students at SMKN 1Baso academic years 2019/2020 consists of 174 students. To determine the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling by choosing two class, they were XI OTP 1 and XI OTP 2. 20 students in XI OTP 1 were treated as control class who apply with conventional media in writing while 21 students in XI OTP 2 were treated as experimental class who apply blog in writing. To analyze the data collected, the researcher used t-test formula to test the hypothesis and consult the result into t-table with level significance α = 0,05. Based on the result of the research, , the mean score of the questionnaire after giving the treatment of the experimental class was 72,28 was higher than the mean score of control class was 65,85. Then it was analyzed by using t-test and the result of t-obtained was 4,47 with degree of freedom 39 and the level significance significance α = 0,05. through comparing the t-obtained (4,47) to t-table (2,042) on the same degree of freedom and level significance, it was found that the value of t-obtained was higher than the value of t-table. Thus the hypothesis (Ha) is accepted which stated using blog gives better effect on students’ motivation to write analytical exposition text. Key words : Blog, Writing Analytical Exposition Text, Motivation. ABSTRAK Ratna Dewi 2315.133. Pengaruh Penggunaan Blog terhadap Motivasi Siswa untuk Menulis Teks Eksposisi Analisis di SMKN 1 Baso Kelas XI Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh beberapa permasalahan siswa kelas 2di SMK 1 Baso dalam menulis Bahasa Inggris. Permasalahan tersebut yaitu: kurangnya motivasi siswa dalam menulis. Penggunaan media adalah salah satu cara alternatif untuk menyelesaikan masalah tentag motivasi. Salah satu media yang isa digunakan adalah blog. Oleh sebab itu, penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pengguaan blog terhadap motivasi siswa unuk menulis teks eksposisi analisis dalam bahasa inggris. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian eksperimen. Data diperoleh melalui angket. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas 11 SMKN 1 Baso yang berjumlah 174 orang siswa. Pemilihan sampel dilakukan dengan menggunakan purposive sampling yaitu dengan memilih dua kelas yaitu kelas XI OTP 1 dan XI OTP 2. Siswa kelas XI OTP 1 berjumlah 20 orang yang ditentukan sebagai kelas control yang diajarkan menggunakan convensional media sedangkan kelas XI OTP 2 berumlah 21 orang yang ditentukan sebagai kelas eksperimen yang diajarkan menggunakan blog. Untuk menganalisis data peneiti menggunakan rumus t-test untuk mengukur hypothesis dan memeriksa hasilnya ke t-tale dengan level signifikan 0,05 Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, rata-rata dari angket yang diberikan sesudah dilakukan perlakuan didapatkan bahwa rata-rata dari kelas eksperimen (72,28) besar dari pada rata-rata dari kelas kontrol(65,85). Kemudian dianalisis menggunakan uji-t. Hasil dari uji-t adalah 4,47 dengan tingkat kebebasan 0,05. Dengan membandingkan t-hitung (4,47) dengan t-tabel (2,042) dengan tingkat kebebasan dan level signifikan yang sama, diketahui nilai t-hitug lebih besar dari pada nilai t-tabel. Jadi alternative hypothesis (Ha) diterima yang menyatakan bahwa menggunakan blog memerikan dampak yang lebih besar terhadap motivasi siswa dalam menulis. Kata kunci: Blog, Writing Analytical Exposition Text, Motivation