STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING CONCLUSION OF ESSAY (A study conducted to fourth semester students of English Education Study Program Pakuan University)

Dian, Rachmania (2018) STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING CONCLUSION OF ESSAY (A study conducted to fourth semester students of English Education Study Program Pakuan University). Skripsi thesis, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan.

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Abstract

i ABSTRACT There are four skills in learning English that should be mastered to make learning process successful. One of them is writing. Writing is an activity to express thoughts and feelings in a written form and serves as a communication tool indirectly. It means students need time to think of ideas to be written in order to express their thought in a written form. This study is aimed to find out the students’ difficulties in writing conclusion of an essay. In conducting this research, the writer applies descriptive method and to gain the data, she took students’ work as documents, distributed questionnaires and conducted an interview. The research was conducted in fourth semester students of English Education Study Program, Pakuan University. The writer uses purposive sampling technique. She chooses one class and takes six students consisting of students who have lowest score of writing major. After analyzing the data, questionnaire and interview, the writer found that students still find it difficult to write a conclusion of an essay. Eleven students (52.4%) have a difficulty in psychological aspect. Eighteen students (85.7%) have a difficulty in cognitive aspect and nineteen students (90.5%) have a difficulty in linguistic aspect. The common difficulties that faced by students when they write a conclusion of an essay are timetable, structure usage, restating the thesis statement, vocabularies, essay organization and connecting one sentence to the other sentences. Keywords: Students’ Difficulties, Essay, Conclusion Paragraph.

Item Type:	Thesis (Skripsi)
Divisions:	Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	PERPUSTAKAAN FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN UNPAK
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2025 06:52
Last Modified:	03 Mar 2025 06:52
URI:	http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/id/eprint/9129

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