An Analysis Of Students’ Difficulties In Writing Descriptive Text At The First Grade Of SMAN 1 Kuala Kampar

The purpose of this study to find out the students’ difficulties in writing descriptive text. Writing is one of the skills that can be called success in learning English. The purpose of writing is to convey an ideas that are in someone mind and put in to writing. Writing descriptive text is not east to student because English is a second or foreign language for students. In this study the researcher tried to find out the students difficulties in writing descriptive text. This research used descriptive qualitative research. The data was taken from the first grade students of SMAN 1 Kuala Kampar. The research took 30 respondents from first grade students of SMAN 1 Kuala Kampar as sample. In this research, the researcher used questionnaire as research instrument. The researcher found that the first grade students at SMAN 1 Kuala Kampar had difficulties in writing descriptive text including organization, vocabulary, grammar, mechanics and content. Based on the result of the highest percentage from each indicator, the main difficulties of students in writing descriptive text were vocabulary was 84%, grammar it was 84%, then followed by content it was 83%, organization was 82%, an the last is mechanics it was 77