Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks laporan. fokus penelitian ini adalah
pada kemampuan siswa dalam menulis Generic Structure dan Language Feature dari teks laporan. partisipan dari penelitian ini
adalah siswa kelas XI SMK Negeri 1 Painan. Dalam mengambil sampel, peneliatian ini mengunakan stratified random sampling.
Data pada penelitian ini adalah berasal dari teks yang di tulis oleh siswa. kemudian, dalam mengumpulkan data tersebut
menggunakan tes menulis. Tes tersebut kemudian di nilai dengan mengunakan rubrik penilaian. Berdasarkan data analisis
ditemukan bahwa tidak ada siswa yang memiliki kemampuan Luar Biasa dan Sangat Bagus dalam menulis Teks Laporan, 5 siswa
memiliki kemampuan Bagus, 14 siswa memiliki kemampuan Cukup, kemudian 7 siswa memiliki kemampuan Buruk dan 4 siswa
memiliki kemampuan Sangat Buruk. Berdasarkan analisis data menunjukan bahwa kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks laporan
adalah Cukup. kemudian, hampir semua siswa tidak lulus nilai batas minimum yaitu 7. oleh karena itu penggunaan pendekatan
dan teknik mengajar yang tepat harus dilakukan.
students’ ability in writing a report text viewed from features; timeless present tense, technical terms,
generic structure and language features at eleven grade relating verbs and common noun. Second, after all of the
SMKN 1 Painan. By analyzing students’ ability in writing students’ text were scored, Then, the researcher
report text will help to find out students’ problems in analyzed the students' writing based on the criterion of
writing report text. writing score that they get in their writing. And to get the
RESEARCH METHOD conclusion of the students’ ability in writing report text
This research was a descriptive qualitative the researcher got it from the students’ mean score in
research because the research was designed to analyze writing report text and then interpret the scores into
the students’ ability in writing a report text text.. Gay arikunto’s criterion; they are excellent, good, average,
(2000:16) state that qualitative research seeks to probe poor or very poor. The table criterion of writing score
deeply into the research setting in order to obtain purposed by Arikunto (2013:245). It could be seen in the
understandings about the way things are, why they are following table below.
that way, and how the participants in the context Table 1. The interpretation range of students’ writing
perceive them.. This research was held in Smk Negeri 1 achievement
Painan, at eleven grade students. It was located on at Jl. Test score Probable class performance
Moh. HattaPainan, Pesisir Selatan district. 91-100 Excellent
The population of this research was the eleven 81 - 90 Very good
grade student of SMK negeri 1 Painan in the academic 71 - 80 good
2017/2018. It consisted of twelve classes. The total 61 - 70 Fair
population from twelve classes at grade XI of SMKN No. 51 - 60 Poor
1 Painan is 323 students. Since the limitatation of ability Less than 50 Very Poor
and time in conducting this research, 32 students was
choosed as the sample in this research. In choosing the FINDING AND DISCUSSION
sample for this research, the researcher takes 10% from This research was done at the second year
the population. So that, from each class takes three or students of SMKN 1 Painan in academic year
two students as the sample. As states by Gay (2002) the 2017/20018. There were 32 students takes as the
minimal sample for descriptive study is 10% of the sample of this research. The data of this research are
population while for a relatively small population at least students’ writing of report text. The writing ability was
20% of the population. And to choose the students to be scored by two scorers; both of them were teachers at
sample, the writer used proportionate random sampling SMKN 1 Painan and the researcher itself. And it was
technique; the researcher writes each name of the scored based on the scoring rubric of report text was
students in each class. After that, the researcher rolled- developed from Brown (2004:244) and Raison
up paper that written of the students’ name. Then, it is (2004:38).The scorers were using the same scoring
taken randomly based on the number of sample of each rubric to analyze the students’ writing ability of report
class. text. The data were analyzed based on the generic
The research instrument for this research was structure of report which consist of identification
writing test. The Instrument was used to find out the paragraph and description paragraphs and language
result of the students’ writing ability. In analyzing the features of report text, they are timeless present tense,
data, the writer used rubrics of writing adapted from by Technical term, relating words and common noun.
Brown (2004:244) and Raison (1994:39).. The test is The scores from both scorers were calculated
constructed based on some indicators of report text they different scale based on the scoring rubric of writing
are identification that consist of general classification report text. Furthermore, since the score of the students’
paragraph and description paragraph and then, ability in writing report text is taken from two scorers, the
languaguage features of report text that consist of consistency of the both scorers should be calculated. To
timeless present tense, Technical terms, relating verbs see the consistency of the score, it is needed to see the
and common noun. reliability of the score by calculating the data by using
In collecting the data for this research, the product moment formula.
researcher distributed the sheet of written test of report Based on the calculation of the product moment
text text. There were some procedures that had been formula above the consistency of the score was 0.92
done. First, the researcher asked the student in class XI from the reliability of both scores, it can be categorized
to write a report text based on four topics that researcher that the consistency of score is very high reliability. It
offer. Then, the students choose one topic from four means that the score could be accepted as the data of
topics offered to develop into a report text and the writer the research.
explained to the students about what they should do After administering the writing test to the students
during the test. The test was observed by the and calculating the result of writing score, found that the
researcher. The time of the test is 90 minutes. The last, Percentage of students ability in writing report text is as
the researcher collected the students paper to be bellow:
scored. After collecting the data, the researcher
analyzed the result of the research. The researcher
analyzed the data in several steps: first, the students
writing were scored by the three scorers about generic
structure; identification and description, language
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Students’ Ability in Writing Report Text of Grade XI at SMK Negeri 1 Painan Rahmi Azizah