STUDENT’S PROBLEMS AND STUDENT’S STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ( A Case Study at The Tenth Grade Social Science 2 of SMA N 1 Nguter)

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The objective of this research was to investigate the student’s problems and student’s strategies in writing descriptive text, the researcher try to examine the problem experienced by students when writing descriptive text both in terms of academic problems, language, and children’s psychology in writing descriptive text. This study was conducted at the tenth grade social science 2 of SMA N 1 Nguter. This is a desciptive qualitative study. The instruments used in the research were questionnaire and interview. Based on the results, it was found that students experienced problems in three aspects of the study, namely linguistic, psychological, and cognitive difficulties. In each of these aspects, organization is the hihghest one followed by behaviour, feedback, grammatical items, and vocabulary. In organizations, difficulties in developing idea are the most difficult. Anxiety is the highest problem in behavior, while the practice is the most problem in the feedback. The problem in using connectors is the highest point in the grammatical items and the lack of vocabulary is the most problems in the vocabulary. Based on the questionnaire and interview results, organization was the most problems aspect in writing descriptive text. To overcome the problems, the students choose to master vocabulary and learning and learning from other sources such as the internet while the others like to read from dictionary.

Keywords: descriptive text, problem, writing