The Analysis of Teachers’ Difficulties in Teaching Writing at SMK Negeri 1 Kota Sorong

Abstract

This research shed light on what are the difficulty faced by the English Teacher in teaching writing at SMK Negeri 1 Kota Sorong. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative approach. This study conducted at SMK Negeri 1 Kota Sorong which involved four participants from the teacher and the student. The participants were selected by using purposive sampling and choose the teacher who have a field in Teaching English educations. This researcher also used three techniques of data collection as observation, interview, and documentation. The researcher also used data analysis which divided into three main stages following the qualitative analysis framework developed by Miles and Huberman: data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions and verification.The result showed that there were four difficulties in teaching writting, the first, the English competencies were related to the lack of students in understanding the grammar and vocabulary. The second, the native language which reffered to the difficulties that caused by students’ native language due to the several differences between Bahasa and English particularly the word orders and the meaning of words. The third, motivation was also an important aspect in writing class because it has ability to energize learners’ behavior and also give direction to learners that can make the learning process became more interesting. The fourth, highlighted the different level of students might bring some difficulties to the teacher when conducting the writing class because it can assist teachers to find appropriate activities at class which suit with students’ level writing ability.