ISTIKOMAH , 2201402024 (2009) THE STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF WRITING PROCEDURE TEXTS (The Case Study of SMA SEMESTA SEMARANG Tenth Grade in the Academic Year of 2007/2008). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Mastery in writing, Procedure Text The ability to write procedure text involves the ability in applying generic structure, lexicogrammatical features and language components of writing such as: fluency, grammar, content, vocabulary, and spelling. The main purpose of the study was to reveal the students’ mastery in writing procedure text which main problems are generic structure, lexicogramatical features, and language components of writing. A field research was carried out to achieve its purpose. The subject study was the students of tenth grade preparation class of SMA Semesta Semarang. There were three classes with 66 total students. Since the number of the subject was fewer than 100, population research was chosen. It means that 66 students were involved. In collecting data, the instrument used was a writing test in which the respondents were supposed to write a procedure text. The writer analyzed the result of the study by means of a statistical analysis. The function of this analysis is to describe the result of the study as clearly as possible. This method was called descriptive quantitative method. The results confirmed the students’ achievement in writing procedure text was categorized well. It was seen from the result 86.36% students passed the test. It was 1.36% higher than the standard minimum of class mastery. From the findings, the writer concludes that most of the students are able to write procedure text. However, some students still get difficulties in formulating goal and material of the component of generic structure, and applying correct verbs as the component of lexicogrammatical features. Therefore, it is suggested that the teacher should pay attention to the texts provided by the curriculum. Therefore, he or she will be selective in choosing materials for teaching not only in using of sentences but also the structure of the texts so that the students are able to write texts which are accepted in the English speaking community.

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