An analysis of students’ ability in wwriting narrative text at grade X students of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan

This research focuses on an analysis of students ability in writing narrative text at grade X students of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan. There some problems of the students in this research are: 1) The students’ difficult in writing narrative text. They don’t know how to write narrative text well generally, because the students write their own writing naturally. 2) The students difficult to write paragraph if their teachers order them to write a paragraph text for instance, they directly open dictionary. 3) The students could write a narrative text, in Indonesian Language, he had difficulty writing text in English. The formulates the problem on specific question as follow: “How is the ability of the students of SMA Negeri 6 Padangsidimpuan at grade X in writing narrative text” and then the objectives in this research to find out the significance ability in writing narrative text at grade X students of SMA N 6 Padangsdimpuan. The methodology of this research was designed by quantitative descriptive research. The population of this research at X grade students SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan which the total 78 students. This research used MIA-2 as the sample that consist of 40 students. To collect the data researcher used test, the test was written test. Then, the research analyzed the data, use mean score to find out students’ writing ability and research used Z-test formula to find the hypothesis testing and to know whether the hypothesis is enough criteria. Based on the data it found that students ability in writing narrative text at grade X students of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan 62,1 mean score and enough category. From the hypothesis testing the researcher found that the hypothesis is enough criteria. It can be proved from Z count = 15 Ztable = 3,26 by level of significant 0,05 or 5%. So, from the result the researcher concludes that the hypothesis was accepted. Therefore, students ability in writing narrative text at grade X students of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan are enough category