Abstract:
ABSTRACT
This study focuses on analyzing students writing a text about local content objects
using textual metafunction which is contained in systemic functional linguistics.
Thus, students pour their thoughts, ideas, and feelings expressed in the written
language. To aim in finding out how is the student‘s ability in the process of
writing a descriptive text about the local content object, and what the difficulties
found by the students in writing descriptive text with the underlying local content
object. The researcher used the descriptive qualitative study method as the main
design of this study. To obtain reliable findings, six students out of 27 seventh-
grade junior high school students. The data were obtained from collected textual
analysis (students‘ paper text writing) and the semi-structured interview with
students in junior high school as participants. The findings revealed that students'
descriptive text writing systemic functional linguistics approach using textual
metafunction still has difficulties, and the students' writing abilities are still not
perfect. There are still many shortcomings. This could be due to the fact that the
students here are in their first year of junior high school, and students can
continue their education for the future. Referring to the result of this study, it
could indeed assign student participants into three or more categories to enhance
variability and differences in the results. Other analysis elements can be added in
analyzing student texts, both textual and the other three elements in the systemic
functional linguistics approach. There will be many differences in the rest of the
students' abilities and difficulties experienced when writing descriptive texts.
Then the researcher realized that there are still many shortages in this research, so
the researcher really expects criticism and suggestions for improvements. Thus,
the researcher also hopes this research can be a meaningful contribution to the
student as well as further research.
