THE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN MAKING ENGLISH SENTENCES IN THE FORM OF RECOUNT TEXT AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS’ OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

English is an international language. In English, students learn four skills that we have to master: speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Among those skills, the students often get difficulties in writing. Therefore, this study is a qualitative research about those difficulties faced by the students. The aims of the study is to know whether students get difficulties in writing English sentences, and to analyze in which part students often get mistakes in writing English sentences through recount text. Later, the result can help the students to improve their writing abilities. In collecting the data, the writer employs reliable and valid instrument that is a test. The writer takes the data from the forth semester students of English Department of UMP. In analyzing the data the writer use non-statistics method that is descriptive qualitative data analysis. The result shows that the average of the students’ errors is 51,99 %. It belongs to fair criteria, which is categorized as good. It can be concluded that that the fourth semester stundents’ English Educational Program of UMP get some difficulties in making sentences in the form of recount text. Based on the result of data correction, it can be concluded that the students got error most in punctuation, part of speech uses, and words choice. Therefore, it can be said that the students’ errors made refer to not only about English Grammar but also English vocabulary. xiv