Teachers’ Problems in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text to The Eighth-Grade Students of Smpn 2 Kandangan

Abstract

Writing is part of the language skills after listening, speaking and reading. Writing is a productive skill that should be mastered by the students of any education level in order to communicate their ideas and feelings with other people in written form.  This research was aimed to describe the teachers’ problems in teaching writing descriptive text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Kandangan.  The researcher used qualitative approach with the descriptive method. The subjects of this research were two English teachers who taught at the eighth grade of SMPN 2 Kandangan. The techniques of data collection used were interview and documentation. The result of interview and documentation showed that there were some teachers’ problems in teaching writing descriptive text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Kandangan, they were from the students (students’ lack of vocabulary, students’ incapability in composing sentence, students’ difficulty in using pronoun and tenses, level or capability different of students, laziness of students)  and the time to do the tasks is limited. The suggestion in this research are the teachers should:  1) give related vocabularies with the material to the students and command the students to take a notes in their book, 2) add an interesting activity in teachers’ teaching procedure that suitable with topic, 3) give students motivation constantly, 4) make the process of teaching and learning writing descriptive text more varied, 5) pay more attention to the slow students, 6) give an instruction clearly to avoid the pupils request for additional time and the teachers should manage the time well.