Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari

This paper aims to present the findings of a research on weaknesses in English Language in the SK Kampung Balan, Dalat pupils focuses on writing skills. The focus of analysis in divided into three aspects, namely, language used, discourse and conceptualization. In language used, the focus is on sentences structure, dialect usage and punctuation while discourse looks at interesting phrases. The ideas in the writing are evaluated holistically by looking at the clarity, maturity and relevance of ideas presented. The respondents of this research are selected collectively from questionnaire, one essay writing, self evaluation of pupils. These methodologies are used to find out pupil’s weakness in writing skills. In conclusion, this research will find out the factors that influence pupil’s writing skills and their poor presentation in their writing test. The total number of respondents is 38 pupils. Generally, the finding of the research show that the writing weakness of the pupils ia at dissatisfactory level. There is a statistically significant different between the pupils achievement. Highest min of 17.68 and only min of 12.42 shows pupil’s lack of interest in learning to write. These result suggest that writing achievement in English Language are at the unsatisfactory level and need a lot of effort to overcome the problems both to pupils and teachers. Although this study was limited in its scope, the results do suggest that considerable investment in all areas should be verify without any delay to overcome the pupil’s weakness in the language concern.