Abstract
Writing an English for EFL learner is a difficult skill because English is a foreign language. Besides that, sometimes EFL learner is confused with organizing the idea, translating the language from Indonesia to English, follow the grammatical rule, find and write the proper vocabulary. In this research focus on the students' writing difficulties in recount text, the factors which influence the students' writing difficulties in recount text, and the way of the teacher solve the students' writing difficulties. This study investigates the writing difficulties of students in SMA Kemala Bhayangkari 3 Porong. In this study, the data served as a qualitative descriptive which took the students' exercise of recount text and interviewed the subject. The result shows that there are different difficulties for each students' ability. Internal and external factors also turned out to be one of the causes of difficulties faced by students in writing recount text. The results of interviews with teachers are known that teacher’s have used metacognitive strategies as solving problems faced by students in writing skills.
Highlights
Learning is the process of getting new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences
Language is a symbol of every notion, country, an area that is suitable with the definition of language state of Wibowo (2001)
The qualitative method relates to quality; the data obtained will be interpreted according to the data that has been received
Summary
Learning is the process of getting new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences. Learning explains that there is a change due to these learning activities. Learning is a way for people to get new experiences. Students can develop their cognitive, emotional, the way they are thinking, and others. Language is one way for people to communicate with each other. It is one of the systems that represent symbols that has meaning. It produces a sound which arbitrary and conventionally used to communicate by a group of humans feel and thoughts. The English Language is a primary language in the world because as an international language that has to used and learned by people around the world because by learning English everything will be more comfortable
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