Situation Before Research

1. Situation Before Research

In this part, the researcher presents about the situation before the research was conducted. All are presented in Table 4.1.

Table 4.1 Situation before Research

The Students’ Indicators

Descriptions

A) Writing Competency 1) Making mistakes in

The students have difficulties in exploring ideas to write. They find presenting ideas

difficulties in transferring thoughts and feelings from their heads onto a sheet of paper.

2) Making mistakes in The students make mistakes in applying the appropriate tense in the structure

texts. They do not memorize the second and the third verb. 3) Having limited word

The limited word choice makes the students find difficulties in choice

applying the appropriate words to express their ideas.

4) Lack of coherence and The students have limited knowledge about generic structure of text cohesiveness

and also about the words transition.

5) Making mistakes in The students make mistakes in ordering words like noun phrase. word order B) Situations in the Writing Class 1) Complaining to write

The students sometimes complain when they are asked to write.

2) Not active The students cannot answer when teacher asks questions and they seldom ask questions to the teacher.

3) Being not happy to read the The students refuse to present their writings in front of the class. writing in front of other

They do not want their writings being read or kown by other friends

people.

4) Spending longer time when When the students are asked to write a text, they need much more writing

time than the time that has been allocated, even they give many reasons to have the writing assignment as their homework because they cannot finish it in the class.

5) Minding personal business The students do not pay attention to the teacher; they look bored or and making noise

make noise. When the teacher is explaining, the students tend to mind their own business.

As shown in the Table 4.1, the students’ writing competency before research is described in several situations. The first situation is in exploring ideas. The students have difficulties when exploring ideas to write. They find difficulties in transferring thoughts and feelings from their heads onto a sheet of paper. Next is in applying tense in text. The students make mistakes in applying the appropriate tense in the texts. They do not memorize the second and the third verb. Besides, the limited word choice makes the students find difficulties in applying the appropriate words to express their ideas. M oreover, the students have limited knowledge about generic structure of text and also about the words transition. The students also make mistakes in ordering words like noun phrase and adjective clause.

In addition, the writing class before research is also described in several situations. The students sometimes complain when they are asked to write. Besides, the students cannot answer when teacher asks questions and they seldom ask questions to the teacher. The students also refuse to present their writings in front of the class. They do not want their writings being published. When the students are asked to write a text, they need much more time than the time that has been allocated, even they give many reasons to have the writing assignment as their homework because they cannot finish it in the class. And the last is the students do not pay attention to the teacher; they look bored or make noise. When the teacher is explaining, the students tend to mind their own business.