A Study On The Ability Of The First Year Students Of Sma N 7n Bintan In Arranging Scrambled Sentences Into Paragraph Procedure Text

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A STUDY ON THE ABILITY OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA N 7N BINTAN IN ARRANGING SCRAMBLED SENTENCES INTO PARAGRAPH PROCEDURE TEXT Asmara Nilla Sary1) Syofia Delfi2) Jismulatif3) Student of English Language Education Department Faculty of Teacher’s Training and Education Riau University Abstract In English languages there are four kinds of competences or language skills that have to learn by the students: writing, speaking, listening and reading. Writing is a basic language skill; just as important as speaking, listening and reading. In this research, the writer want to know the ability of the first year students at SMA N 7 Bintan in arranging scrambled sentences into paragraph procedure text. This focused writing paragraph procedure text until right order. The instrument that is used to collect the data in this research is writing test. It used to measure the students ability in rearranging scrambled sentences with transition signals into paragraph procedure text. It is an essay test in which contain one topic. In this case, the writer takes 10 rearranging scrambled sentences. Each sentence consists of transition signals as a point to make correct paragraph of procedure text. The subjects were 25 students from XI.I class at SMA N 7 Bintan. The results showed that 8 students (32%) who got 61-80 score which falls on good level of the ability and then 4 students (16%) who got 41-60 score range which falls on fairly good level of ability, but most of the students (13) around 52% got 21-40 score range which falls fair level of ability. Finally, the researcher gets the conclusion that arranged scrambled sentences into paragraph procedure text by first year students of SMA N 7 Bintan is fair level ability.