The Ability of Writing Procedure Text of the Ninth Grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda in the Academic year 2007/2008

The Ability of Writing Procedure Text of the Ninth Grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda in the Academic year 2007/2008

The Ability of Writing Procedure Text of the Ninth Grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda in the Academic year 2007/2008 Language as a me... 8:30 PM

The Ability of Writing Procedure Text of the Ninth Grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda in the Academic year 2007/2008

Language as a means of communication plays an important role in our life. English is an important language for us because it is used in many countries throughout the world, including Indonesia. As we know that, English is also used as a medium in studying, exploiting, and also developing technology and science. As far as we know that, In Indonesia, English has been taught in Elementary School, Junior High School, Senior High School, and the first grade in University. In English teaching, students sometime found procedures text. Many of them have difficulties to understand the procedures. The writer is encouraged to analyze such the phenomenon. The writer would like to know the student’s ability in writing procedural text.

This research is carried out to: (i) to know the ability in arranging the steps of procedure text of ninth grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda Dawe. (ii) To know the ability in writing procedure text based on the picture of ninth grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda Dawe. (iii) To know the ability in writing procedure text based on the theme of ninth grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda Dawe.

This research uses the qualitative approach. In addition, this research uses descriptive method. Since this research gives description about the ability of writing procedure text of ninth grade students of MTs. Tsamrotul Huda Dawe in the academic year 2007/2008. The population in this study is all the ninth year students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda Dawe. The instrument that is used in this test is writing test. the result of the data analysis is described in order to provide description of ability of writing procedure text of ninth grade students of MTs. Tsamrotul Huda Dawe. 

From analyzing the data of this research, it was obtained that; (i) The ability in arranging the steps of procedural text of ninth grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda Dawe Kudus in the academic year 2007/2008 is good or in the level of achievement above average. It is based on the result that the mean is 81,25. (ii) The ability in writing procedural text based on the picture of ninth grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda Dawe Kudus in the academic year 2007/2008 is good or in the level of achievement above average. It is based on the result that the mean is 81,45. (iii) The ability in writing procedural text based on the theme of ninth grade students of MTs Tsamrotul Huda Dawe in the academic year 2007/2008 is good or in the level of achievement above average. It is based on the result that the mean is 78,77.