The Tenth Grade Students‟ Language Features in Descriptive Texts Writing: a written discourse analysis at a private senior high school

Abstract

The aim of this research was to describe the language features in descriptive texts written by the tenth grade students at a senior high school (MA Unggulan Nuris) in Jember. The research design was descriptive qualitative research in the form of case study. The respondents of the research were chosen purposively. Fifteen students were chosen as the participants of this research based on the latest score of English subject examination. The data was collected by the students‟ writ ing assignment and interview. Then the collected data were analyzed in the form of table and description, and the result of showed that the students still had difficulties in applying correct language features of descriptive text especially in simple present tense and adjectives.