ANALYSIS STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT OF SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUN

Abstract

This research focus in analysing the difficulties in applying singular and plural noun of descriptive text made by the students at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 2 Tanjungbalai in academic year 2020/2021. The objective of this research was to find out the difficulties faced by the tenth grade students in writing descriptive text. Having analyse and understood the errors and the reason behind the difficulties. The instrument of the research was writing test which analysis design. There were three aspects in scoring. They were linguistic difficulty, physiology difficulty, and cognitive difficulty. So it was concluded that the result of this research found linguistic difficulty as the most difficult part for the students in applying singular and plural noun of writing descriptive text with 71%. The other difficulty was in cognitive difficulty with 28%. The last difficulty was find in physiology difficulty with 1%. So clearly, the students need to learn more about the rules in applying singular and plural noun in writing.