An Analysis of Students Difficulties in Writing Recount Text at the Eighth Grade of MTS Sirajul Falah Bogor on Second Semester of 2019/2020 Academic Year

rida abdillah nurstalasta; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd; cahya komara, s.pd., m.hum;

MOHAMMAD IQDAM AMRUL UMAM. NIM: 1301065101. An Analysis of
Students Difficulties in Writing Recount Text at the Eighth Grade of MTS Sirajul
Falah Bogor on Second Semester of 2019/2020 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta,
The Study Programme of English Education, The Faculty of Teacher and
Education Studies, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2020.
This research analyzed and examined students‟ difficulties in writing
recount text at the eighth grade of MTS Sirajul Falah Bogor on second semester of
2019/2020 academic year. The objective of this research is to get factual data of
what factors that make eighth grade students of MTS Sirajul Falah Bogor get
difficulties in in writing recount text. Besides, this research also tried to figure out
the quality of eighth grade students of MTS Sirajul Falah Bogor in writing recount
text (either good or bad). Therefore, this research involved 20 students as sample
of research by selecting 8.III class with purposed sampling technique. There
instruments were used to get data, which were observation form, test of writing
recount text, and interview. The data was analyzed by using qualitative method
analysis. The results showed that that eighth grade students of MTS Sirajul Falah
Bogor got difficulties because of language features lack of understanding factor. It
was found that most students got difficulties on language features, which were
grammar problem of past tense or 12 students or 60% and poor of vocabularies or
12 students or 60%. This result was different with generic structure analysis
scoring which were 12 students or 60% passed the stage than 8 students or 40%
who failed to complete stage. Therefore, the language features of grammar (past
tense) and vocabulary became the 20 students‟ main difficulties. Next, the result
of total scoring of generic structure and language features analysis also found 11
students or 55% majority of 20 students got low score or bad compared with only
9 students or 45% who passed the Standard Minimum Scoring (65). Thus, the
majority of students‟ recount text result was not good. These results were
supported from the result of interview that showed majority of students responded
they had poor of vocabulary and grammar problem which means they got problem
most in language features.