Students’ difficulties in writing recount text at grade XI SMAN 5 Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed about students‟ difficulties in writing recount text at grade XI SMAN 5 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were students‟ writing achievement was low, students had poor vocabulary, and students had luck of writing motivation. The aim of this research was to find out the difficulties of students in writing recount text. This research had two formulations of the problems. They were: what was students‟ difficulties in writing recount text? and what was the dominant difficulties in writing recount text?. The purposes of this research are to find out students‟ difficulties in writing recount text and to know the dominant difficulties in writing recount text. This research employed qualitative research using descriptive method. The primary source of this research was XI grade SMAN 5 Padangsidimpuan. Total of them were 19 students. The secondary source was the English teacher of grade XI SMAN 5 Padangsidimpuan. The researcher used test as the instrument. The researcher analyzed the data by editing the data, reducting the data, tabulating the data and the last taking conclusion. The researcher found some facts in the fields. First, it was found that the answers that students‟ problems in writing recount text were difficulties in developing the contents, organization, vocabulary, language use/grammatical and mechanics. The data got were from students‟ test were that analyzed from indicator of writing. Second, the dominant difficulties in writing recount text was developing the content and in language use/grammatical