ABSTRACT

Ulfah, Aulia. 2020. Teachers’ Problems in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text to the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 2 Kandangan, Sarjana’s Thesis, English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. Advisors: Dr. Jumariati, M.Pd and Rizky Amelia, M.Pd.

Key words: problems, teaching writing, descriptive text

Writing is one of the language skills after listening, speaking and reading. Writing belongs to the productive skill that should be mastered by the students in order to communicate their ideas and feelings with others in written form. This research was aimed to describe the teachers’ problems in teaching writing descriptive text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Kandangan. The researcher used qualitative approach with the descriptive method. The subjects of this research were two English teachers who taught at the eighth grade of SMPN 2 Kandangan. The techniques of data collection used were interview and documentation.

The result of interview and documentation showed that there were some teachers’ problems in teaching writing descriptive text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Kandangan, they were from the students (students’ lack of vocabulary, students’ incapability in composing sentence, students’ difficulty in using pronoun and tenses, level or capability different of students, laziness of students) and the time to do the tasks is limited.

Based on the result above, it is suggested that in teaching writing descriptive text, the teachers should give related vocabularies with the material to the students and command the students to take a notes in their book. The teachers could add an interesting activity in her teaching procedure that suitable with topic. The teachers should give students motivation constantly in order to make the students always have spirit to study English. The teachers also should make the process of teaching and learning more variation such as use another teaching techniques like mind mapping or free writing. The teachers should pay more attention to the slow learrners and more often asked them to answer the questions in teaching and learning process. The teachers should give an instruction that clearly to avoid the students request for additional time and the teacher should be better to manage the time.