AN ANALYSIS OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BASED ON PICTURE
Abstrak
The purpose of this research is to find out the tenth grade students’ ability in writing a descriptive text based on picture at SM2N 2 Sawahlunto. The researcher used descriptive research method for this research. The population of this research was the tenth grade students at SMAN 2 Sawahlunto and the researcher used cluster random sampling technique to select 32 students as the sample. The instrument for collecting the data in this research was a writing test in the form of writing a descriptive text. To make the test reliable the researcher used inter-rater method and the result of analysis showed that the test was reliable. It was supported by the fact that the coefficient correlation was 0.86 which is bigger than the value of the r table at df 21 and alpha .05 (0.413). Then the test was valid because it had covered the material that the students had learnt. Generally, the result of this research showed that the students’ ability in writing a descriptive text based on picture was low. Kata kunci : Writing, Descriptive Text, PictureReferensi
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