A Study on Ability and Problems in Writing Narrative Essay of the Second Semester Students of English Department STAIN Tulugagung (PBING-32)

            English is very important subject in the human life to learn today. However, it has become the second language in our country. That is why; learning foreign language should be given to Indonesian’s youth. English teaching and learning is aimed to prepare youngest Indonesia in facing the rapid progress of science and technology .Become more confident to get involved in international relation as part of the world. College students should write more, because they are generation who will give contribution to the future by writing theirknowledge and skills.

This study investigated on the second semester student of English Department of STAIN Tulungagung in writing narrative essay. The research problem of this study is (1) How are the students of second semester of English Department program of STAIN Tulungagung’s achievement in writing narrative essay? And (2) what problem faced by students of second semester of English Department program of STAIN Tulungagung in writing narrative essay? Furthermore, the objectives of this research are (1) To know the students of second semester of English Department program STAIN Tulungagung’s achievement in writing narrative essay and (2) To know problem faced by students of second semester of English Department program STAIN Tulungagung in writing narrative essay.

            Research design of this study is descriptive in quantitative approach. The subjects of the research are second semester students of English Department STAIN Tulungagung. The method of collecting data used was documentation and interview. And then those data will be analyzed by using SPSS 16 for windows. And then the value is compared with the Heaton’s theory to find the conclusions of the analysis.

   The Research findings were the students’ achievements presented in percent of their scores compared with the scoring scale. And the result is, about 12% of students are failed, and 88% of students can pass the test; although, the 33% of students get the minimum score to pass the test. From the data, the students’ difficulties also appear. The students make more mistakes in three main points, the first is language usage, and here most of students put the incorrect grammar. The second is mechanic; almost all of students forget to put the correct punctuation. And the third is organization, there are many students can not organize the sentences well. However, in the content and vocabulary they were not so bad.      

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