Abstract:
A STUDY ON THE ABILITY OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS
OF SMA AN-NAAS PEKANBARU IN WRITING
EXPLANATION TEXT
MARTINA
Student of English Language Education Department
Faculty of Teacher’s Training and Education
Riau University
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to know how good is the ability of the second year students of SMA An-Naas Pekanbaru in writing explanation text. The subjects were 20 students from XI science class at SMA An-Naas Pekanbaru. The researcher used the writing test as an instrument in collecting the data. The students’ score were analyzed by three raters. The aspects which were evaluated were; grammar, vocabulary, mechanic, fluency and organization. The results showed that the most difficult aspect of writing for students is grammar, where the average score was 69.5. Then, the students’ highest score was in the aspect of organization, with the average score of 81.9. Based on the assessment of each aspect of writing, the students who got 80-100 are 3 students(15%), it belongs to good to excellent level. Then, the students who got 60-79 are 17 students (85%) which belongs to average to good level. Finally, the researcher gets the conclusion that the percentage of students’ ability in writing explanation text is in the average to good level.
