ABSTRACT
The final project is about the teaching narrative texts in improving writing skill to the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Petarukan. Teaching writing to Senior High School is not an easy task. It requires a lot of creativity from a professional teacher.
The object of the study is to find out the students’ achievement in writing narrative texts. It is expected that the research would be useful for the teachers and students in language teaching and learning process.
The subject of the study is the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Petarukan, Pemalang in the academic year of 2005 / 2006. There were 42 students (25 girls and 17 boys). The writer took all of them as the subject of the study. The technique used for collecting data is pre-test and post-test and interview. First, the writer gave a pretest. It was conducted at the beginning of the research. Second, the second activity was held. It was continued with the third activity, the fourth activity, the fifth activity, the sixth activity and post-test was conducted. At last the teacher made interview with the students about the difficulties in writing.
The result of the study was that the students’ progress during teaching and learning activity by using narrative texts to improve writing skill was good. The students’ achievement in writing was improved, it was supported by the significance result of the pre-test was 62.09%; writing the first draft on the first cycle was 65.52%; writing the second draft 71.53%; writing the final copy was 74.38%; writing the first draft on the second cycle was 72%; writing the second draft was 75.42% and writing the final copy was 79.71%.
Therefore, teachers should always try to create an interesting text for their teaching. Based on the result, teachers can apply narrative text to improve the students’ writing skill.
