AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT AT GRADE X OF SMK 10 MUHAMMDIYAH KISARAN

Abstract

Abstract: This research purposed to know the students’ ability in writing procedure text. The location of this research was in SMK 10 Muhammadiyah Kisaran.The time that was spend in this research was one month. This research was applied by qualitative content analysis. The subject of the research was the students at grade X TKJ-1 of SMK 10 Muhammadiyah Kisaran. Students consist of 32 students. The instruments that used in this research was a test of writing procedure text, interview, and documentation. The test was asking the students to write the procedure text well. Based on the result of the research, the students’ ability in writing procedure text was low. It was proved by their mean score in writing procedure text that only reach 59.0. It can be conluded that there is any significant an analysis of students’ ability of procedure text significantly very low. From this research, there are two instruments in examining their ability including generic structure and language features. It is hoped that by the finding of these trouble, there will be future research on this subject so that there will be some method or strategy that enable to overcome these troubles.

Key words: ability, writing, procedure text.