Media Didaktika
Vol. 11 No. 2 (2025): April - November 2025

AN ANALYSIS OF ELEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS' ABILITY TO WRITE SHORT STORIES BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Thresia Trivict Semiun (Universitas Timor)
Delicia Abani (Universitas Timor)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Nov 2025

Abstract

This study examined eleventh-grade students' ability to write short stories based on personal experience at SMAN 2 Kefamenanu. The main focus of this research was to analyze five aspects of writing short stories, namely content, organization, grammar, mechanics, and vocabulary, as well as the level of ability and difficulty of the students in writing short stories. It applied a qualitative and quantitative approach with tests and interviews as the instrument. The results showed that students had a "good" level of writing ability, with an average score of 81.31. However, some students still encountered difficulties in several aspects of writing, namely grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, and content. These difficulties occurred because students could not combine good sentences, lacked vocabulary, could not place punctuation marks and capital letters correctly, and could not explain the meaning of the topic they had determined. Therefore, errors occurred in their writing. The study provided advice for teachers to improve their teaching methods.

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Abbrev

didaktika

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Subject

Humanities Education Mathematics Other

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The journal is published by the Postgraduate Program of Universitas Islam Darul Ulum Lamongan as a medium of information and dissemination of research results, classroom action research, theoretical developments, scientific papers on education and learning, and best practice from any field of ...