WRITING ATTITUDE OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA ADABIAH PADANG

Abstract

An article under the title “Writing Attitude of the Second Grade Students at SMA Adabiah Padang” is aimed to describe students’ writing attitude. The research was done at SMA Adabiah Padang. There were 48 students that became the sample of this research. They were students of XI IPA 1 and students of XI IPS 4 at SMA Adabiah Padang. They were chosen by using purposive sampling technique. The instrument used was questionnaire that consists of 20 statements. The Questionnaire was adapted from Kear et al. (2000). Students’ writing attitude was analysed using tripartite theory—affective, behaviour, and cognitive. The result shows that the second grade students of SMA Adabiah Padang have positive attitude toward writing.