An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Writing Narrative Text at The Eight Grade Students of SMPN 4 South Tambun Bekasi in 2019/2020 Academic Year

cahya komara, s.pd., m.hum;

AHMAD ULUMUDIN. NIM: 1601055001. An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Writing Narrative Text at The Eight Grade Students of SMPN 4 South Tambun Bekasi in 2019/2020 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2020.
This study investigated the students’ difficulties in writing narrative text of eight grade students of SMPN 4 South Tambun for the 2019/2020 academic year. The aim is to obtain empirical data about the factors that influence students’ difficulties in writing narrative text. Therefore, the writer can analyze the students’ writing narrative text of eight grade students of SMPN 4 South Tambun. This study took 50 students from 8-4 and 8-5 classes using qualitative descriptive analysis methods. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the factors causing the eight grade students of SMPN 4 South Tambun to get the difficulties in writing narrative text are generic structure 42.57%, language features 40%, background knowledge 41.33%, teacher's explanation 51.33%, and motivation 43.5%. It supported that only 9 out of 50 students are able to write narrative text with a complete generic structure and correct language features. The lack of clarity of the material explained by the teacher made the students' interest in learning English decrease. This has an impact on the lack of vocabulary and grammar knowledge of students which in turn causes several generic structure and language features errors in writing narrative text.