THE ANALYZING OF AMBIGUITY ON STUDENTS’ WRITING MADE BY STUDENTS IN SMK DHARMA BAKTI MEDAN

Abstract

The aims of this study were to figure out the casual factors of ambiguity found in students writing. The subject of this study was the students of Class XI-TKR of SMK Dharma Bakti Medan. The research design was in the form of descriptive qualitative research. The instrument of collecting data was the students’ sheet of English writing text. In conclusion, the most dominant ambiguity in lexical meaning found in writing text by Class XI-TKR of SMK Dharma Bakti Medan was polysemy ambiguity. There were 10 casual factors of why ambiguity found in students’ writing text based on the analysis of the structure of sentence in students’ English writing. The most reasons were: (1) the students did not give the specific details in their writing, usually they preferred the short writing, (2) there were several vocabularies which could be reasonably interpreted more than one way or reasonably interpreted  more  than  one  thing,  (3)  the  students  felt  confused  to  find  appropriate vocabularies to express the meaning. As a result, they sometimes left the sentence undone or hanged without a clear idea, due to the lack of vocabularies. The analysis of ambiguity in lexical  meaning  that  made by  students  of Class  XI-TKR  of SMK  Dharma  Bakti  Medan revealed  that  students  should  learn  semantic  as  the  main  subject  in  English  writing  to understand multiplicity of meanings.