AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING AN INVITATION LETTER AT ELEVENTH GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MA AL-AMIRIYYAH IN BLOKAGUNG BANYUWANGI ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

ABSTRACT

Rohsita, 2021. An Analysis of Students' Ability in Writing An Invitation Letters at
Eleventh Grade of Senior High School MA-Al Amiriyyah
Blokagung Banyuwangi In Academic Year 2020/2021

Key Word: Analysis, Student’s Ability, Invitation letter

By writing, everyone can express what they think or feel by using a
language either indirectly or directly. Besides, writing is one of the most
important skills in the English language that students must master at school, while
the elevent grade students of Madrasah Aliyah Al Amiriyyah still had problems in
writing, especially in writing invitation letters, most of them were not understand
well about part of invitation letter and to design their sentences. Besides they were
also less vocabulary in writing invitation letter. So this aim of research is to
describe student's ability in writing an invitation letter at the eleventh grade
students of Madrasah Aliyah Al Amiriyyah Blokagung Banyuwangi in the
academic year 2020/2021.
The method in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data was taken
from the results of the researcher's observations on the learning carried out in
class, especially on the invitation letter material, then the invitation letter writing
test conducted by the teacher was then analyzed by the researcher according to the
rubic score set by H. Douglas Brown, namely there are six elements in the
assessment of students' writing skills. namely content, organization, discourse,
syntax, vocabulary, mechanics. In this study, the researcher took 4 eleventh grade
students as informants and interviewed the eleventh grade English teacher of MA
Al Amiriyyah Blokagung Banyuwangi.
The results of the analysis of students' writing skills on an invitation
letter are that three students are included in the sufficient category with scores
obtained 64, 66, 62 and one student is included in the good category with a score
of 75. This indicates that the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of MA
Al Amiriyyah in the 2020/2021 academic year on an invitation letter is still low
and there is a need for improvement in better writing learning methods.