AN ANALISYS OF STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH: A CASE STUDY AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA 1 PUJUT IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

Abstract

This research aims to know the An Analysis of Students’ competence in writing descriptive paragraph. The subject of this research has been 36 students of class at SMA 1  Pujut in academic year 2018/2019. The research design on one test of SMA 1  Pujut used the one sheet method. In this test the students had to write a descriptive paragraph. The author used the descriptive method for data interpretation. The research revealed a mean score of 53.47 at the test. In detail: the students’ competence in writing descriptive paragraph was fairly good (38.8%), good (13.8%), excellent (5.5%), poor (36.1%) and very poor (5.5%). In general, based on the result, the author concludes that the students’ competence in writing descriptive paragraphs was classified fairly good. It demonstrated that most of the students (80%) of class at SMA 1  Pujut were able to write descriptive paragraph using their own words as good possible.