LUNAR: Journal of Language and Art
Vol 6 No 1 (2022): Language and Art (LUNAR)

An Analysis of Students’ Lexical Choice in Writing Descriptive Text

Lucky Indra Pratama (UNIVERSITAS 17 AGUSTUS 1945 of Banyuwangi)
Totok Hari Prasetiyo (3UNIVERSITAS 17 AGUSTUS 1945 of Banyuwangi)
Rizki Nurfida Pambayun (UNIVERSITAS 17 AGUSTUS 1945 of Banyuwangi)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Aug 2022

Abstract

Writing is become the one of difficult skill to learn especially in EFL context. Students have problems when formulating words while doing writing assignments. This very important to investigate student problem while do writing especially on lexical choice that student utilize in writing descriptive. The corpus can also be used for examines sentence writing structure and word selection that can be seen and synchronized very effectively. The importance of this research is to be able to know the capacity of students when doing writing task and how their writing product can be better. it can be ascertained that from student writing samples that have been analyzed, there are 10.2% high frequency, 2.5% mid frequency, and 87.3% low frequency. This identifies that in writing students still tend to use familiar words to make a sentence. Based on the aspects of discovery that have been mentioned, students' ability to write still needs to be improved again, especially in the selection of several adjectives and pronouns.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

lunar

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The subject covers textual and fieldwork studies with various perpectives of English Education, English Education for young, English learning, literature analysis and all studies in the field of learning, education, curriculum and ...