THE DESCRIPTION OF STUDENT’S PROBLEMS IN WRITING SKILL

Research Objectives to find out students’ problems in writing skill and to find out what factors hinder students’ability in writing. This thesis uses a qualitative method. The data collection techniques are through observation, decumentation and interviews. Finding research; The students’ problems in writing skill are text coherence, choice of vocabulary/grammar, content. Spiling. Student do not know how to make a sentence and also often make mistakes. Besides being difficult because of the many things to learn in Grammar, this skill also has a variety of formulas for constructing various types of sentences that must be remembered. On spelling, writing skill can be improved by frequently reading English book. Factors that hinder students’ ability in writing are factor that students lack mastery of vocabulary and geammar. The factors that students are not interested in writing and environmental factors that dp not support students to use English. This happens because of the low motivation of teachersand students lack of supporting facilities such as magazines and reference books/stories in EnglishSuggestions are submitted: The teachers could help the students to practice the use of language in written form. This technique is helpful for the students to be more enthusiastic to write English. Therefore, this technique is recommended to the English teachers to give the student more exercises of writing activity by trying to vary the teachers’ model in teaching and making the classroom as interesting as possible. So, the students will be more interesed in learning English especially in writing.