Explanation Text of Grade Xi Students at SMKN 4 Medan

Abstract

Writing is one of skills in English and it’s important for students, also it is not an easy skill to master. As stated by Richards and Renandya (2002: 303), writing is the most difficult skill to master for second or foreign language students. Writing skills are placed in the last section after three skills namely listening, speaking, and reading. It can be said that students must apply everything they have in the previous three stages. This study aims to develop a writing assessment rubric for explanation text for eleventh grade, to assess student writing related to the availability of the 2013 Curriculum for English subjects in the school. This research is about how and why, which is the process of explanation text itself and at the same time can improve their writing skills. This research method uses research and development methods (R&D). It is hoped that by using reliable rubrics, teachers can easily assess the writing performance of their students who meet the requirements of the writing aspects.The expert gives some corrections and suggestions on the development writing assessment rubric. Based on the result of the writing assessment rubric, the average was 3,7 and the percentage was 93,7% that categorized in “Very Good” category. Keywords: Assessment Rubric, Students’ Explanation Text, Writing

Self Regulated Development Learning Model Based on Local Culture to Improve Elementary School Students’ Explanatory Writing Skills

“…Exposition text is a type of text that contains information or knowledge, while procedure text is a text that contains steps to do something. Meanwhile, explanatory text is part of factual writing because explanation is a text that explains a fact about the process of occurrence of events or natural phenomena, social phenomena, and cultural phenomena (Coleman et al, 1997;Ozuru et al, 2010;Palupi et al, 2020;Rayana et al, 2019;Ricoeur, 2018).…”

“…Explanatory is a text that explains an event or phenomenon, both natural phenomena, social phenomena, and culture (Coleman et al, 1997;Ozuru et al, 2010;Palupi et al, 2020;Rayana et al, 2019;Ricoeur, 2018). Menulis eksplanasi dapat bermakna jika menggunakan budaya lokal dengan proses pembelajaran yang memasukan sistem budaya dan nilai-nilai budaya yang terdapat di daerah tempat tinggal siswa.…”

“…In addition, the assessment of the explanatory writing skills of elementary school students can be done through the explanation writing skill assessment guide sheet (Rayana et al, 2019). Product effectiveness data were obtained from the test results given to students.…”

“…Explanatory writing skills are a new writing skill in elementary school students (Fukaya, 2014). Explanatory writing also still feels foreign to elementary school students in Indonesia (Rayana et al, 2019). In addition, students are confused about the type of explanatory writing (Ainsworth & Burcham, 2007;Palupi et al, 2020;Ricoeur, 2018;Watts et al, 2020).…”

“…The explanatory text explains the process of something happening, why something happens, and process related to natural, social, and cultural phenomena (Ainsworth & Burcham, 2007;Becerra et al, 2020;Rayana et al, 2019;Watts et al, 2020). Ideally, writing explanations should be close to students.…”