The Generic Structure and Language Features of Descriptive Text Composed by High Achieving Students of Grade Eight at SMPN 1 Tempursari, Lumajang

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to portray features of Descriptive text writing produced by high achieving students . The design of this research was the Descriptive Study. The research subjects were the high achieving students of SMPN 1 Tempursari, Lumajang whose score 75 or higher. In this research, the researcher used writing test to determine the descriptive text, to be analyzed further in order to know the patterns of the generic structure and language features. The results revealed that all the high achievers could develop identification part as stated in the theory. It is reflected from the existence of the phenomenon which is stated in the identification. On the contrary, the result revealed that most of the high achievers had some problems in writing description part. They had difficulties in developing main idea into a paragraph and did not understand the points that should be written in description. It is reflected from the students writing which contains more than one idea in a paragraph and the inappropriateness of the content written. The students also were not able to apply simple present tense correctly. High achievers got problems in applying simple present verbs and subject agrement in developing descriptions of descriptive text. The errors made by the students were the same as what they did in writing identification. In applying adjective, the high achievers did not get any problems, they all were able to apply adjective appropriately.