Students’ Writing on Narrative Text in Secondary EFL Classroom

Abstract

Abstract

Writing is one of the activities that students consider difficult when learning English. Writing becomes challenging due to psychological, linguistic, and cognitive problems. Narrative text was chosen as the type of text that was researched in this present study since it is familiar to students’ world by exploring students’ creative thinking. . This research aims to: (1) Explaining how the students’ develop their narrative writing text in secondary EFL classroom; and (2) Explaining how the students’ encountered the difficulties in writing narrative text. This research was descriptive qualitative that aims to describe the ninth-grade that collected through students’ writing task interview and interview. The students’ writing task has four component categories, such asexcellent to very good, good to average, fair to poor, and very poor. Mostly, the students could develop orientation, complication, resolution, and coda well in their narrative writing text. They really understood what should be elaborated in those each text structure of narrative text. Meanwhile, from the results of interviews, student responses show that students experience difficulties in the lack of motivation during the writing process, the difficulty of using past tense sentences and limited vocabulary that has an effect on the processing of story structures. This difficulty can be overcome through consultation and internet media as their support in writing narrative text.
Keywords: narrative text, difficulties in writing narrative text, narrative text development for EFL.