| dc.description.abstract | Writing is one of the important skills that should be mastered by the
students, unfortunately most of the students still have problems in writing
especially in writing good sentences. This research was intended to describe the
eighth year students’ sentence problems in writing descriptive text and recount
text.
The research was conducted at SMPN3 Bangsalsari which was chosen by
purposive method with the following consideration: (1) it was possible to get
permission from the headmaster to do research in this school, (2) this school
needed data about the students’ sentence problems in their writings (a descriptive
text and recount text). The subjects of the research were the eighth year students
of SMPN 3 Bangsalsari in the 2011/2012 academic year. They were divided into
four classes, VIII A, VIII B, VIII C, and VIII D. In this research, the researcher
used purposive sampling method to determine the respondents. The researcher
took six students from each class which consisted of two high achiever students in
English, two moderate achiever students in English, and two low achiever
students in English by using UAS score of English as the classification. Therefore,
there were 24 students of eighth year as the subjects. | en_US |
