Students’ Ability in Writing News Item Text

Abstract

his study deals with ‟ Ability in Writing News Item Text. The purpose of this research is to analyze the ‟ Ability in Writing News Item Text. The population is all ten grade students of MADRASAH ALIYAH ISLAMIC CENTER academic year 2017/2018, class consists of 2 classes. Ipa 30 students. Sample this research is 60 students. From the results of the study students have difficulties in writing News Item expressing their ideas in writing, students have lack in vocabulary and not know structure and grammar. This research design is related to descriptive quantitative technique concerned measurement and sampling because their deductive approach emphasizes detailed planning prior to data collection and analysis. based on analyzing data Using the heaton formula of the result of writing text. By consulting to the analyzing of data, it can be explained the result of this study. The test was a teacher made test focused on writing news item text. The finding show that 60 students or 85% of the sample were able in writing news item text. And 9 students or 15% was unable students in writing news item text. The difficulty faced by the students was language use. They were lack of vocabulary so that they were difficult to write text