AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSITION SIGNALS IN STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA ISLAM IBNU RUSYD KOTABUMI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

APRILLIA, FATMA SARI (2022) AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSITION SIGNALS IN STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA ISLAM IBNU RUSYD KOTABUMI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to analyze the transition signals that found in students’ writing descriptive text and the types of transition signals that mostly used by the students in writing descriptive text at the tenth grade of SMA Ibnu Rusyd Kotabumi in academic year 2021/2022. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative research. The researcher used descriptive text as the object of analysis and focused on analyzing transition signal. The data collecting technique of research was content analysis and the instrument was students’ writing descriptive text. The technique sampling was purposeful sampling technique. There were 15 students as the sample of this research, especially at C class. Based on the data analysis, it was found that there were26 transition signals errors found in the students’ writing descriptive text such as: besides, because, instead of, and, moreover, furthermore, after that, therefore thus, because, even though, although, for instance, in addition, therefore, in conclusion, for this reason, etc. The types of error in using transition signal that mostly found in the students’ writing was addition and cause effect. It was found that there were 11 errors in addition type, 3 errors in contrast type, 2 errors in comparison type, 1 error in example type, 8 errors in cause effect type, no error in sequence or time types and 1 error in conclusion type of transition signal. It can be concluded that the students were still got error in their writing and the teacher is suggested to teach about transition signal specifically. Keywords: Descriptive Text, Transition Signal, Writing Ability.

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