AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTSAo ABILITY IN WRITING BROCHURE AT MTsN KURANJI PADANG Putri Pradella.
Ernati.
Lisa Tavriyanti.
The Student of English Department.
The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education.
Bung Hatta University E-mail: leohinata@ymail.
The Lecturers of English Department.
The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education.
Bung Hatta University ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to describe the second year studentsAo ability in writing brochure at MTsN Kuranji Padang.
The design of this research was descriptive.
The total number of population of this research was 338 students.
They were divided into ten classes.
The researcher took two classes of the population as the sample by using cluster random sampling with total member of sample were 64 students.
In collecting the data, the researcher used writing test.
In this test, the students could chose one of the topics that they liked most.
The reliability index of this test was .
The result of the study showed that the ability of the second year students of MTsN Kuranji Padang in writing brochures was moderate .
25%).
In details, their ability in organizing ideas in writing brochures was moderate.
75%), their ability in using grammar in writing brochures was moderate .
69%), their ability in using vocabulary was moderate .
69%) and their ability in using mechanics was moderate .
%).
Since the result of the study showed that the studentsAo ability in writing brochure was moderate, the researcher suggested the students to have more practice and learn more in writing brochure.
Then, in writing brochure, they should pay attention to use grammar, vocabulary and mechanics.
For English teachers in MTsN Kuranji Padang, they should give more explanation and give more exercises in order to help the students to improve their ability in writing brochure.
Key words : Ability, writing brochure, organizing ideas, grammar, vocabulary and Introduction We learn about English as our foreign Writing is very important for us, it is a We know that English is very difficult subject especially for the student.
important for us because nowadays English The reason is writing is a mixture of our is one of the most important languages in the We know that English is not only According to Heaton in his book AuWriting important in business world, but also in the English Language TestAy .
, writing Our government realizes that skill is more complex and difficult to teach.
English is very important, so it has become one of subjects which is taught from junior grammatical and rhetorical devices but also high school until university.
In learning conceptual and judgment because of the English, there are four skills involved:
difficulties of writing, some efforts have listening, speaking, reading and writing.
The done to solve the problem.
The main students must know about these four skills, objective is to make the writing become so that they can use English actively and easier to learn for the students.
mastering not only of Writing is one of English skills From HeatonAos opinion above, the that we have to learn seriously, besides writer can conclude that writing is a very listening, speaking and Reading.
Byrne important subject because in writing we .
says that writing is a primary must share idea from our brain.
It is not easy means of recording speech, even though it to translate concept in our brain to be a must be acknowledged as a secondary written language and we must also be clever medium of communication.
Writing is very to choose and to combine the vocabulary to create something that is meaningful.
one kind of media in communication that can help us to have a We also must pay attention to the good socialization, express our idea, feeling, grammar, so it is normal if the students think and our opinion so that we can have a good that writing is a difficult subject because interaction with our society.
According to they must pay attention to many things Badger .
dea, concept, vocabulary and gramma.
writing is It means that when you write Based on curriculum of MTsN Kuranji something, you have already been thinking that is recommended by the education about what you are going to say.
government, there are some functional texts which have to be learned by the students.
One of them is brochure.
A brochure is a Raimes .
states that there are useful information tool that you can mail to some components that should be considered customers or leave behind after meeting in writing.
They are grammar, mechanics, with the client.
audience, the writerAos purposes and content.
experiences at MTsN Kuranji, there are In writing brochures, students must some problems found in the field when the understand how to write a good brochure, students write brochures.
The first problem especially components of brochures.
They Based are title, content and contact person.
If the comprehensible because the content in the students know the components in brochures, brochure is not relevant to the topic, the title it will help them to express their ideas, is not clearly stated, and the contact person interest, feeling and needs, clearly, correctly in the brochure is not well organized.
The and confidently.
second problem is that there are many errors Generally, studentsAo in vocabulary and grammar.
research was to describe the second year In learning English, there are four studentsAo ability in writing brochures at integrated skills that students should know.
MTsN Kuranji Padang.
Specifically the They are listening, speaking, reading and purposes of this research were:
Among them, writing is the most To describe the ability of the second difficult skill because writing is a mixture of year students of MTsN Kuranji our idea, vocabulary and also grammar.
Padang in organizing ideas in According to Braine and May .
, writing title, content and contact writing clear sentences require you to learn the rules of English grammar and mechanics To describe the ability of the second such as the correct use of verbs and year students of MTsN Kuranji pronouns, as well as commas and other Padang in using grammar in writing marks of punctuation.
It is not easy to express ideas in written language.
It must be To describe the ability of the second clever to choose and to combine the year students of MTsN Kuranji vocabulary to create something that is Padang in using vocabulary in writing brochure.
To describe the ability of the second There are many sampling techniques year students of MTsN Kuranji that can be used in taking a sample, but the Padang researcher chose cluster random sampling writing brochure.
Cluster random sampling was chosen because the population has been Research Method In this research the researcher applied Each group had teachers who have the descriptive design.
According to Gay the same qualification, syllabus and teaching .
7: .
, descriptive research involves It means that it is homogeneous.
collecting data in order to test hypothesis or Cluster random sampling is sampling that is to answer question concerning the current in the form of group not individual (Gay, status of the subject of the study.
In this 1987:107-.
The researcher chose two research the writer described about the classes .
%) as the sample.
According to second year studentsAo ability in writing Gay .
, the minimum sample of desciptive research is 10% of the population MTsN Kuranji Padang.
According to Gay .
, population is member, but more than 10% are better.
the group to which the researcher would like To select the sample, the resarcher the result of the study to be generalized.
The used the following procedures.
First, the population of this research was the second researcher wrote the names of each class on year students of MTsN Kuranji Padang.
The ten pieces of paper and put into a box.
After writer chose the second year students of that, the researcher took two pieces of paper MTsN Kuranji Padang because they have from the box after mixing up.
From that, the The sample of this research was the students in numbers of populations were 338 students.
class Vi9 and Vi10.
The total members in They were distributed into ten classes.
sample of this research were 64 students.
Because the population were large, the researcher took sample from population.
According to Gay .
, sample is one that is representative of the population from which itis selected.
The instrument that was used in this research was writing test.
The researcher asked the students to write a brochure.
They were allowed to choose the topic that they liked most among the four topics provided.
Then, the researcher asked the students to choose one of them and wrote brochure text moment formula (Arikunto, 2009:.
as in 45 minutes.
The four alternative topics of the writing test were:courses places, objects for travelling, cafe/restaurant and pets shop.
Oc Oo{ Oc Oc Oc }{ Oc Oc Oc A good test should be valid and Finally, the researcher classified the According to Gay .
, a test degree of coefficient correlation.
It is is valid if it measures what is supposed to be To see validity of the test, the .
researcher used content validity.
Arikunto 81 Ae 1.
= very high validity is content validity.
Arikunto .
61 Ae .
= high states the test is valid if it fixes with the 41 Ae .
= moderate material that has been given to the student 21 Ae .
= low 00 Ae .
= very low ArikuntoAos .
states that one of the types of test and it is based on the curriculum and This writing test was constructed based on curriculum and teaching material In fact, after giving test to the students, the writer found the coefficient in MTsN Kuranji Padang.
correlation of two scorers was .
According .
, means that reliability of the test was high reliability is the degree to which a test correlation and it can be said that the test was reliable.
Gay To find out the reliability of the inter-rater It means there were two scorers .
corer 1 and scorer .
The first scorer was the researcher and the second scorer was Ms.
Nike Prima Rona.
Pd, the researcher chose her as the second scorer because she has as good ability as the researcher in To find out the correlation of the two scorers, the researcher used product Findings StudentsAo ability in writing brochure The highest possible score was 20 and the lowest score was 4.
Based on the data analysis, the highest score was 20 and the lowest score was 4.
After calculating the mean and the standard deviation , the writer got mean 14.
21 and for standard deviation, the writer got 2.
The result of the data showed that 6 students .
375%) had high ability, 52 students .
25%) had moderate ability and 6 students .
375%) had low
Quality Number of High
Moderate Low
Total
The percentage of the students Students High
Moderate Low
TOTAL
of the studentsAo StudentsAo ability in using grammar in writing brochure The highest possible score was 5 and the lowest score was 1.
Based on the calculation of the studentsAo writing score.
StudentsAo ability in organizing ideas in the highest score of using grammar was 5 and the lowest one was 1.
Data analysis also writing brochure demonstrated the mean and the standard The highest possible score was 5 and The mean was 3.
32 and the the lowest score was 1.
To find out the standard deviation was 0.
The data studentsAo ability in organizing ideas in analysis also showed that 10 students writing brochure, the writer firstly presented .
62%) had high ability, 51 students the raw score.
The highest score of this .
69%) had moderate ability and 3 components was 5 and the lowest one was 1.
69%) had low ability.
After that, the writer calculated the mean and the standard deviation.
It was found that Quality Number of High Moderate Low Total the mean was 3.
86 and for standard deviation was 1.
10 and then, the writer classified the studentsAo ability.
The result of the data analysis of the studentsAo ability The percentage of the students showed that there were 24 students had high ability .
5%), 28 students had moderate StudentsAo ability in using vocabulary in ability .
75%) and 12 students had low writing brochure ability .
75%).
Quality Number of The highest possible score was 5 and The Percentage the lowest score was 1.
In term of using vocabulary in writing brochure, the result of the data analysis showed that the highest
Quality Number of Students High
Moderate Low
TOTAL
score was 5 and the lowest one was 1.
The data analysis also demonstrated the mean and the standard deviation.
The mean was 48 and the standard deviation was 0.
The Percentage of the studentsAo The data analysis also showed that 9 students .
06%) had high ability, 51 students .
69%) had moderate ability and 4 students .
25%) had low ability.
Quality Number of Students High
Moderate Low
TOTAL
The Percentage of the studentsAo Discussions In terms of writing organizing ideas, they had moderate ability because 75 % students were categorized in moderate ability.
The components that was analyzed in organizing ideas were title, content and contact person.
Most of students understood how to organizing ideas clearly.
Title and content were related with the topic StudentsAo ability in using mechanic in writing brochure The highest possible score was 5 and that the writer gave to them and they write the contact person clearly.
For Example :
Cafe/Restaurant Losari beach is a beautiful beach and the lowest score was 1.
In term of using located on the padang city of Sumbar.
mechanic in writing brochure, the highest is located only about 30 KM from the score for using mechanic was 5 and the center of Sumbar .
oo par.
Race lowest one was 1.
It also showed that the course jet, there are losari beach cafe.
mean was 3.
54 and the standard deviation Jln.
Pattimura no 4 nawalo The result of the data showed that CP : dara 082384945503 13 students .
31%) had high ability in using mechanic, 48 students .
%) had From example above, we can see moderate ability and 3 students .
69%) had that this student chose topic about low ability.
cafe/restaurant.
But, this student did not understand how to organizing ideas clearly.
Title and content were not related with the From example above, we can see that this topic about cafe/restaurant.
But, this student student wrong in using vocabulary.
This write the contact person clearly.
So the student wrong in writing please as place.
So, correct one is :
the correct form : please, visit our place now Object For Travelling !! thanks.
Losari beach is a beautiful beach and located on the padang city of Sumbar.
is located only about 30 KM from the center of Sumbar .
oo par.
Race course jet, there are losari beach cafe.
Jln.
Pattimura no 4 nawalo CP : dara 082384945503 In this aspect of grammar, they had moderate ability because 79.
69% students were categorized in moderate ability.
Some of them did not understand the use of simple future tense.
For example :
Incorrect form : KFC will in open twentifor time.
From example above, we can see that this student wrong in using grammar.
So, the correct form : KFC will be open in 24 hours.
For the terms of using mechanic, the students had moderate ability because 75% students classified in moderate ability.
In this case, some students did not use mechanic correctly.
For example Incorrect form : to open pet shop sale various kind animal, cat, dog, bird and From example above, we can see that this student wrong in using mechanic.
This students not using mechanic well like example above, so the correct form : we will open pet shop.
Sale various kind of animal like cats, dogs, birds and fishes.
Conclusions In this aspect of using vocabulary, the students also got moderate ability had been Based on the findings of the research, the writer concluded that :
69% students had been classified into moderate ability.
In this case, almost the writing brochure was moderate.
students understood about how to use appropriate vocabulary in sentence.
In general, the studentsAo ability in The studentsAo ability in organizing ideas in writing brochure was moderate.
Incorrect form : place, visit place we now !!! thanks.
The studentsAo ability in using grammar in writing brochure was moderate.
The studentsAo vocabulary was moderate.
The studentsAo ability in using mechanic was moderate.
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