Features of Descriptive Text Written by Junior High School Students of SMP Islam Kalibaru”.
1.2 Research Problems
Based on the research background above, the problems of this research is formulated as follows.
1. How do students of SMP Islam Kalibaru organize identification and description
as the generic structure of a descriptive text? 2.
How do students of SMP Islam Kalibaru apply simple present tense in writing a Descriptive text?
1.3 Research Objectives
Based on the research problems, the objectives of this research are as follows. 1.
To describe the identification and the description as the generic structure of Descriptive Text written by the students of SMP Islam Kalibaru.
2. To describe the use of simple present tense in the descriptive text written by the
students of SMP Islam Kalibaru.
1.4 Significances of the Research
The result of this research was expected to contribute to the English teachers, students, and other researchers.
1. The English teachers
The research result gave the English teacher information about the students’ descriptive text writing pattern, especially in organizing identification
and description as the generic structure and information about the characteristic of the language features. Hopefully, it could be used by the English teacher as a
reference to help the students encounter their problems.
2. Other Researchers
The research is hopefully used by other researchers as a source of information to conduct a further research dealing with the similar topic, but by
observing the other language feature aspects, such as the use of adjectives, specific nouns, detailed noun phrase, relating verbs, and thinking verbs.
1.5 Research Scope
The scope of the research w as focused on describing the students’ descriptive
text of person writing, especially on the generic structure and language feature written by the eighth grade students of SMP Islam Kalibaru in 20142015 academic year. The
generic structure consists of identification and description of descriptive text. Meanwhile, the researcher took only one of language feature as the research variable,
it was the use of simple present tense.
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CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
