Students Challenges In Writing Personal Letter

This study was conducted to find out the challenges encountered by the second Grade Natural Science students 2 of MAN 1 Pidie Jaya in writing of personal letter. It was aimed at one fold of research objective. It finds out what the student’s challenges in writing of personal letter. The study employed qualitative research methods to find out what student’s challenges in writing of personal letter. The participants of this study were 7 students at grade-2 natural science 2. The research data was collected through interview and observation. To collect data, 7 interviewees were selected purposively and students observation at the second grade natural science 2. The result of the data shows that many factors cause students to experience problems in writing, especially in writing personal letters. Among others, lack of ideas in writing, lack of vocabulary that was recognized by the students and the laziness of the students in writing. Where this factors are interrelated in order to improve writing skill for students, especially in writing personal letter, because a personal letter is one of the compulsory materials in learning English for grade two in senior high school. Therefore, after knowing what the challenges of students in writing personal letters, it was hoped that this study would improve learning writing of personal letter in the future to make it better. In particular, teacher in teaching students must be more active and use more modern learning media in accordance with the current era.