AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstrak

The research aims to analyze students’ ability in writing the narrative text by
following the generic structure. According to the previous studies conducted by some
experts, some of the students did not write the narrative text based on the generic
structure. Therefore, in this research, the researcher analyzed whether students in X MIPA
I at MAN 2 Aceh Besar wrote the narrative text depending on the generic structure or
not. In addition, the number of students from X MIPA I was 18 students. Further, in this
study, all of them participated in writing the narrative text. Additionally, the design of
this study was a descriptive qualitative research design. Moreover, in collecting the data,
the researcher used document analysis that would be used to get some information about
students’ narrative text. In addition, the research finding showed that from 18 participants
only 8 students wrote the narrative following the generic structure Furthermore, 10 of
them did not write the narrative text based on the generic structure.