AN ANALYSIS ON THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING SHORT FUNCTIONAL TEXT IN THE FORM OF INFORMAL INVITATION LETTER AT SMPN 1 VII KOTO SUNGAI SARIK KABUPATEN PADANG PARIAMAN

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the second grade students’ ability in writing informal invitation letter at SMPN 1 VII Koto Sungai Sarik Kabupaten Padang Pariaman. In this research, the population was the second grade students of SMPN 1 VII Koto Sungai Sarik Kabupaten Padang Pariaman. The number of the population was 286 students. It was divided into eight classes, VIII.1, VIII.2, VIII.3, VIII.4, VIII.5, VIII.6, VIII.7, VIII.8. Class VIII.1 was as sample. The size of sample was 33 students. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique to get representative sample. The instrumentation used to get the data was writing test in the form of writing informal invitation letter. The researcher gave writing test to the sample for 60 minutes. To know the reliability of the test, the researcher used Pearson Product Moment formula. It was found that the reliability of the test was .95; and it was categorized as very high correlation (see Appendix 4). The result of this research showed that there were 7 students (21.21%) had high ability, 20 students (60.61%) had moderate ability, and 6 students (18.18%) had low ability. The finding of this research leads the researcher to conclude that the second grade students of SMPN 1 VII Koto Sungai Sarik Kabupaten Padang Pariaman had moderate ability in writing informal invitation letter.

Key words: writing, short functional text, invitation