Fitriyana Armananti Dewi
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Writing is the way to express ideas or though in words to give information for readers.
Commonly, writing is the hardest thing for students because they should take a long
process. Based on the data, it was found that students had difficulties in organize idea,
lack of vocabulary, and write sentence ungrammatically. Therefore, the researcher was
interested to know the students’ problem in writing recount text paragraph at the first
semester of tenth grade of SMA PGRI 03 Bogor. The objective of this research is to
find and to know the students’ problem in writing recount text at SMA PGRI 03 Bogor.
The research methodology used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The sample
was chosen based on purposive sampling, the researcher chose X MIPA 2 as the subject
of the research, because the students of X MIPA 2 got the lowest score in writing
recount text. The number of students of X MIPA 2 was 30 students. The researcher
used document and questionnaire to gather the data.
The result showed that there were five aspects of problem faced by students in writing
recount text such as: content (6.66%), organization (2.82%), vocabulary (14.35%),
language (46.15%), and the mechanics (33.33%). It means that, the most dominant
problem in writing recount text is language. Beside that, the causes of students problem
in writing recount text are grammatical weakness, knowledge and understanding, less
practice and educational background.
Keywords: writing, students’ problem in writing, recount text, and qualitative.