AN ANLYSIS ON THE ABILITY OF THE GRADE X STUDENTS OF SMA NURHASANAH MEDAN IN WRITING LETTERS

Abstract

This study deals with the ability of the students in writing letters. The purpose of this study is to find out whether or not the students are able to write such letters.

The population of this study was grade X students of SMA NURHASANAH Medan in 2019 Academic year with the total number of the 90 students. From this population, the writer taken sample of this research was randomly that is 30 students.

The instrument used to collect the data was as essay test. The students were asked towriter letters based on the advertisement provided by the writer. Since the test was in from the essay, inters corer reliability is used to evaluation the result. After analyzing the data, it as found that 70% of the sample were able to write letters. It means that grade X students of SMA NURHASANAH Medan are able in writing letters.