Teacher’s Strategies to Cope with Students’ Problems in Writing Descriptive Text at SMA Negeri 1 Napabalano

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the teacher’s strategies to cope students’ problems by the students in writing descriptive text at grade ten of SMA Negeri 1 Napabalano. The design of this research was descriptive qualiatative research. The subject of the study was the English teacher at SMA Negeri 1 Napabalano. The instruments to collect the data were observation, questionnaire and interview to analyze the teacher strategies to cope the vocabulary, structure and generic structure problems by the students in writing descriptive text.  The result of this research related that the English teacher used four strategy namely t-chart strategy, Idea-details strategy, mind mapping strategy and tell-show strategy. First, t-chart strategy is focused of the vocabulary problems by the students. Second, mind mapping strategy is focused of the structure problems by the students. Third, tell-show and idea-details strategy are focused of generic structure problems by the students. The last, the strategy that is not applied by the teacher through the three instruments is draw label caption.