This Research is aimed at investigating the correlation betwen students' mastery of past tense and their ability to write a recount text. It is conducted to the second semester student of English Student Education Study Program, Faculty of teachers Training and Educational Scienses, Pakuan University. They were chosen Because they had learned simple past tense and paragraph recount since the fi…
The culture of writing among students in Indonesia is still lacking or 46,83% students have lack reading. Because the students think that the writing process take a long time. Therefore, the role of the teacher is very important of the writing process to achieve the goal by providing feedback on students in their writing. The feedback can identify errors in writing. This study aims to inves…
This study is entitled “Students’ Perspectives on the Use of Authentic Materials Toward Their Writing Ability in Creative Writing Class”. The researcher formulates a research question: “What are students’ perspectives on the use of authentic materials toward their writing ability in Creative Writing class”. Utilizing authentic materials to empower students’ writing ability has…
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, students of the academic year 2018 in ELESP, Pakuan University experienced online learning. This may lead to a different result of the study compared to studying offline. The purpose of this study is to find out the difficulties students face in Academic Writing lessons which are carried out online at home. This research applies descriptive method. Th…
This paper is entitled “The Use of Sentence Starters on Students’ Ability to Write a Descriptive Text”. The statement of the problem in this research is “do sentence starters affect students’ ability to write a descriptive text”. This research is to investigate the effect of using Sentence Starters on students’ ability to write a descriptive text. This is held at SMP NUSANTARA…
The paper entitled “The Correlation of Students’ Understanding of Simple Past Tense and Their Ability to Write Narrative Text” is aimed to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students’ understamding of simple past tenses and their ability in writing Narrative text. This research was correlation study. Research population was eight grade students of SMPN Dhar…
The paper entitled “Students’ Strategies to Overcome the Lack of Vocabulary in Writing” was guided by using one research question: “What are strategies applied by the students to overcome their problems at the lack of vocabulary in writing?.” This research aimed to find out students’ strategies to overcome the lack of vocabulary in writing. The writer used descriptive qualitati…
Writing is one of English skills which enables students to write down their ideas. It is very beneficial because it can facilitate other activities during learning process. Among kinds of texts taught by the teacher during writing activities is recount text. Recount text is a text that retells about event, experience and action in the past. In writing recount text one of the grammar that st…