creators_name: 0543042019, IRAWAN PRAYOGO
type: other
datestamp: 2015-04-29 09:00:01
lastmod: 2015-09-11 08:24:50
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title: AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ PROFICIENCY IN DESCRIPTIVE 
PARAGRAPHS WRITING AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMA TRI SUKSES 
NATAR LAMPUNG SELATAN
ispublished: pub
subjects: General
full_text_status: restricted
abstract: This research was intended to explore the learners’ proficiency in making descriptive
paragraph and to know their problems in each of the writing components. 
This research was conducted at SMA TRI SUKSES NATAR Lampung Selatan. The
subjects of this research were the students of class IX IPA 1. In this research, the data
was gained from two methods. They were qualitative research design (questionnaire
and interview) and quantitative research design (writing test). The students’
paragraph writing were analyzed and scored by three raters. And then, the results of
scoring from the three raters were added and divided by three to get the average score
for each student. The questionnaire and the interview were analyzed by classifying
the students’ answer based on the need to support and describe the students’
proficiency in writing descriptive paragraph. 
In order to know the students’ proficiency in descriptive paragraph writing, the
researcher referred to ninth-grade students’ proficiency test in writing of Ohio, 
Columbus. There were 13 points of outcomes which must be produced by the
students. 
The result shows that the students could make descriptive paragraph, but students’
proficiency in writing were not good yet. It could be seen from the content, which had
the main idea and supporting sentences. Beside that, ______ students were able to
explain the idea clearly by giving some example. In spite of that, students’ writing
still had some mistakes in form, grammar, vocabulary, mechanic and few in content. 
Besides, based on the criteria of paragraph writing scoring, there were ______
students got score from 85-100 (excellent level), ____students got score 75-84 (good
level), _____ students got score 60-74 (satisfactory level), and then no student got
score from 0-59 (fail/unsatisfactory level). The result showed that the students’ ability
in making descriptive writing paragraph was good. Their result of average score was
_______. 
The difficulties faced by the students in descriptive writing were grammar, such as
preposition, singular and plural, to infinitive, modals, adjective clause connectors, to
be and present tense. Other difficulties faces by the students were in form of content,
form, vocabulary, and mechanic. This problem might be due to their carelessness
when they made their descriptive writing.  
date: 2011-12-03
date_type: published
publication: Digital Library
refereed: TRUE
citation:   0543042019, IRAWAN PRAYOGO  (2011) AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ PROFICIENCY IN DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPHS WRITING AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMA TRI SUKSES NATAR LAMPUNG SELATAN.  UNSPECIFIED.     
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/2/approved.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/3/COVER.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/4/bab%201.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/5/bab%202.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/6/bab%203.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/7/Bab%204.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/8/bab%205.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9333/9/REFERENCES.pdf