THE ENGLISH WRITING COMPETENCE OF THE STUDENTS OF INDONESIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

Abstract

This study attempts to find out the English Writing Competence of the Students of Indonesian Senior High School, highlights the problems, finds out the cause and provides some suggestions to overcome the problems. For attaining this purpose, three questions were raised and the answers were provided and discussed. To find out the objectives of this study, the researcher collected the data through a writing test. The participants were the First Senior High school students in SMA1 and SMA3. The result of this study showed that learners’ English writing Competence was encountered problems in many categories. The problems were mostly in grammar such as tenses, articles, singular and plural, verbs, prepositions, and spelling. Moreover, the learners face some difficulties in the punctuation and capitalization. Most of these errors were encountered as a result of the mother tongue influence.