Writing Difficulties In Learning English

Language is the important thing that people can use for express their idea in written and oral form. Realising that language is the important part of communication, language is inserted become one of material in teaching. On School Based Curriculum which has been implemented in schools, it stated that language has a central role in intellectual, social, and emotional development of the students and has a significant importance to support students’ success in learning all subjects. It means that without language, students’ are not being able to develop their learning and understanding. Freeman (2000 : 2) states that language is a means of interaction between and among people. Through language, people can build an interaction through expressing

Those types of writing should be mastered by students who learn English in school. Each of the four types writing has different level of difficulties. The highest level of difficulties is that the narrative writing. Narrative writing is the form of writing used to relate the story of acts or events and seems to be difficult for the students to write it. These types of writing will be the subject of English firstly introduced on junior high school level. It will be the difficult thing to write a narrative for junior high school because in elementary school, the students are just taught the basic vocabularies. Actually, the fact that narrative writing is the most difficult competency for students in junior high school that is needed to achieve. In making a good narrative writing, the students must have a well-development of theme or plot, well-organisation of generic structure (orientation, complication, and resolution), and appropriate use of

Coherence

A paragraph is called coherence when all parts of the paragraph are logically connected one to another. The sentence should be arranged in a logical manner and should follow a definite plan for development. The reader will be easier to be understood because the supporting sentences are in the logic way, and the ideas are connected by using appropriate transactional signals, such as moreover, firstly, secondly, however, brief, and so on.

Component of a Paragraph

There are three important part of paragraph according to Jordan (1980:4), those are :

a. Topic Sentence

Topic sentence is the most important sentence in the paragraph that has function as the guide to state the topic and controlling details. According to Jordan (1980:4), there are three major points to remember about topic sentence :

- A topic sentence is a complete sentence. It contains a subject, a verb, and complement

- A topic sentence contains both a topic and controlling idea. It names the topic and then the limits the topic to a specific area to be discussed in the space of a single paragraph.

- A topic sentence give sonly the main idea. In this case, the topic sentence can be either in the first or in the last paragraph, and sometimes even in the middle of