The Analysis of Students Ability In Using Noun Phrase to Produce Descriptive Text At The Twelfth Grade of SMA Negeri 7 Purworejo In Academic Year of 2021/2022

Abstract

Abstract. Fundamentally, this research has two purposes (1) to know the students‘ ability in using noun phrase on descriptive text and (2) to identify the problems faced by students in using noun phrase to write descriptive text.The researchers employ descriptive qualitative method to run the research. The study was done at SMA Negeri 7 Purworejo, especially in class XII Bahasa 1. The researchers used writing test to get accurate data and interview the students to support the data. From analysis result, it is known that in the category of organization, 10 students in excellent level and 13 students were in good level. In the term of content, 16 students in excellent level and 7 students in good level. In the term of grammar, 13 students in excellent level, 6 students in good level and 4 other students in poor level. In the term of mechanics, 10 students in excellent level, 12 students in good level and 1 other student in poor level. In the term of vocabularies, 10 students in excellent level, 10 students in good level and 3 other students in poor level. Besides having problem in creating sentence using noun phrase, they also find themselves hard in arranging words into acceptable sentence. From the interview, the researchers found that they got their habit by translating sentences from Indonesia into English. Furthermore, they were stuck in Indonesian concept and structure, so the result of their translation cannot be acceptable in English.

Keywords: Descriptive text, Noun Phrase, Students’ Ability.