Abstract :
The research aimed at knowing the students’ ability in writing descriptive
text for the eight grade of MTs Nuruzzainiyah Nw Bandok and to analyze the
problem experienced by them. The collected data were 13 students’ who
experienced the poblem in writing descriptive text. The finding of the study implied
that students’ problem were lack of vocabulary, errors in structure and grammatical
and the problem of students’ in writing descriptive text were; (1) students’ lack of
intrest in learning more outside of schooll hour, (2) students’ assume that English
is the most difficult subject to learn, (3) teacher rarely provide motivation and there
is no appreciation from teacher againts students’ writing product.
Key Words: students’ ability and problem in writing, descriptive tex