Students' Cultural Awareness In Writing (A Descriptive Study At English Department of IAIN Langsa

The researcher would like to know how is the cultural awareness of students in writing and how the students explore cultural awareness in writing at the English department of IAIN Langsa. The researcher technique in this research is a qualitative technique as a discourse analysis research design. Students from Unit 2 in the 2019 academic year are participating in this research. In this study, the researcher chose 11 students from the English department of IAIN Langsa who had taken writing classes. The researcher used documentation as the research instrument in this study. The results of this study showed that the students' cultural awareness in writing was really lesser. This is because the students frequently make silly mistakes with punctuation, prepositions, running on sentences, and sentence fragments. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that students in Unit 2 in the 2019 academic year are still unaware of proper writing culture.