Exploring Students’ Skills In Writing Narrative Essays

The issues face nowadays are students still have problems in writing generic structure and language features of narrative texts. This study was designed to explore the English students’ skill in writing narrative essays. This qualitative research involved ten English students who were selected by using purposive sampling. In collecting the data, the writer used document analysis and semi structured-interview. Accoding to the findings of document analysis, from the ten data collected only four of them are qualified as narrative essays . Furthermore, the results of semi structured-interview showed that students have several difficulties in writing narrative essay such as lack of practice, lack of knowledge how to brainstorm an idea, lack of vocabulary and grammar.