AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PERSONAL LETTER AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE IN SMK N 5 PADANG
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to analyze the students' ability in writing a personal letter at the eleventh grade in SMK N 5 Padang. This research design was a descriptive. The population of this research was the second-grade students at SMK N 5 Padang. The reseacher used convenience sampling technique, and the sample was class 11 TPM which consist of 34 students. The instrument for collecting the data in this research was a writing test. To make the test reliable, the researcher used the inter-rater method. The results of data analysis showed that correlation coefficient the test was 0.80, it means the test was reliable. Then the test is valid in terms of content because the material about personal letter has been covered in the curriculum and syllabus that has been learned by the students. The result showed that there were 19 (55.88%) students who had high ability. Based on the result of data analysis, it can be concluded that students’ ability in writing personal letter was high. Keywords: Ability, Writing, Personal LetterReferensi
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