Factors Influencing Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive

Farida Farida, Fauziah Fauziah, Farizawati Farizawati

Abstract


This study analyzed factors that influence students’ ability in writing descriptive text. There were two research questions formulated; what were students’ ability in writing descriptive text and what were the factors influencing students’ ability in writing descriptive text. This research is a descriptive qualitative research which used students’ work/writing (portfolio) and questionnaire as instruments for data gathering technique. The result from students’ work/writing (portfolio) showed. The result of the document analysis showed 4 students get very good category based on 70-89 score, The second category of document analysis showed 10 students get 50-69 score with good category, The last category of this document analysis showed 2 students get the lowest scoring category (00-49), no one get the category of excellent which score 90-100 . While the result from questionnaire analyze based on the students ability showed that  student ability  in writing are relative low, and have two factors that influence students ability that were internal and external factors. As the result to overcome factors influencing students ability in writing the student can develop their ability in writing.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.47647/juree.v1i1.2270

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