AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT BY THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA N 7 PADANG

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Abstract

This research was aimed at describing the difficulties faced by the second year students of SMA N 7 Padang in writing hortatory exposition text. The design of this research was descriptive in nature. The population of this research was the second year students of SMA N 7 Padang . The number of the population was 335 students. The number of sample was 66 students selected by using stratified cluster random sampling. The instrument was writing test. Before doing the real test, the researcher tried out the test. The result of the  try out test showed that the reliability of the test was 0.99. The findings of this study were that based on the findings, it could be concluded that in general students had no difficulties in writing hortatory exposition text. In line with the conclusion the researcher suggested to the English teacher to use more effective strategy in teaching writing in order to minimize the students’ difficulty in writing hortatory exposition text. The students are suggested to do more exercises of writing hortatory exposition text, it is expected that the difficulties could be minimized.

Key words : Hortatory Exposition text, Difficulties, SMA N 7 Padang, Writing Skill