Before analyzing students assigment while the researcher interviewed the initial teachers about students difficulties in writing narrative texts. The researcher did thisfroman early age with the aim of knowing the difficulties in determaining authentic materials and writing narrative text used by student assigments that had been given by the previous teacher. The researcher not only interviewed and analyzed and students assigments, but also interviewed the Eight grade students of MTs Nurul Ali Jember to match the teachers interview related to what she said about the researchers difficulties. This is evidenced by the narrative text of students assigment. This research is related to the title of the use of authentic materials in writing narrative text. Student difficulties in learning authentic materials. In Class Eight MTs Nurul Ali Jember the details of the discussion are explained as follow:
The researcher found that some students had problems faced by students in the generic structure of written narrative text. The written finds
that the problem is; students face difficulties in understanding the generic structure. The generic stucture consist of orientation, complication and resolution. Orientation tells the viewer about the characters in the story, where the story takes place, and when the action takes place.
Complications which consist of pharagraphs that describe the story problems that the chsaracters solve. Resolution is the end of the story, where the characters finally solve their problems and the researcher also finds students difficulties in terms of grammar.
The researcher found that some of students had problem which are faced by students in generic structure of written narrative text. The writter found that problems were; the students faced the dificulty in understanding the generic structure. Generic structure consis of orientation, complication, orientation told the audience about the characterin the story, where the story was taking, and when the action happened.
Authentic materials to improve students narrative text writing is successful and effective. The students could get many ideas and vocabularies. They could also make good writing in narrative text well. It can be seen in their result of descriptive text writing such as in the content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic. So, by using the method is helpful in the process of teaching learning text writing. Besides
media can be used to escalate, encourage the students to express their ideas, it cs be used to help scholars in literacy to write.75
The researcher found that some of students had problem which are faced by students in generic structure of written narrative text. The writter found that problems were; the students faced the dificulty in understanding the generic structure. Generic structure consis of orientation, complication, orientation told the audience about the characterin the story, where the story was taking, and when the action happened.
The way before starting in writing narrative text that must knew the generic structure first, it would help the writer easy to wrote, finished quickly and got reader attention. The finding about generic structure in writing narrative text was suitable with Prasyasto‘s theory in Armi Hartati‘s thesis with title ―An Analysis of Student Ability
The students difficulties in writing narrative text such us: they only knew some of vocabularies that used in daily activity, they had difficulty in the used past tense, they doubted between present tense and past tense, they referred to choose descriptive text then narrative text because they thouhgt that descriptive text easier to choose the theme and describing the things that based on the theme, the lackof their vocabulary, they had difficulty developed and arranged their ideas,they had difficulty to translated to English, they had difficulty in deciding the topic, writing the plot, conflict
75 Suparwoto Sapto Wahono, The record of using picture series to develop students’ writing skills, (English Review : Journal of English Education, 202), 966
and the ending if the teacher did not allow to search on internet, some of students sometimes had no idea what they would write and also lack of students interest in reading.
The purposes of this study were to describe the students‘
difficulties in vocabulary mastery and the factors that caused students‘
difficulties in mastering vocabulary. This research employed qualitative approach using phenomenology design. The data were gethered by observation, interview, and document review. Data technique and data source triangulation were used to validate the collated data. The result of this research revealed that several students had difficulties in vocabulary mastery. This study showed that: first, the difficulties encountered by students were that the students go difficulties in translating words or sentences in English into Indonesia and vice versa. Students also experienced difficulties in understanding the meaning of the words, pronounciation, misspelling, and remembering or memorizing English vocabulary. Secondly, there were some factors that caused students got difficulties in vocabulary76
These problems were suitable with Maslakhah (in Wiedarti‟s theory) in Ni Putu Eva F.D, Nengah M, Wayan W‟s with the title
―Kesulitan Belajar Keterampilan Menulis Cerita Pendek Siswa Kelas IXC SMP Negeri 3 Singaraja Tahun Pelajaran 2016/2017‖ in that journal also explained ―Difficult in determining topic to be written was a general
76 MI Machfudi-Crew Journal,2022 Students’ difficulties in vocabulary mastery
cliché problem that faced by writer. Every people or writer felt that there was no good, interest and suitable topic that to be written‖.77 The researcher agreed with these explained about difficulty to decide the topic because topic that to be chosen should interesting, no general, suitable to write, and there was benefit from the topic that had chosen.
This reasons made in determining topic became difficulty for students
77 Dewi Fransiska N.P.T, Martha N, Wendra W "Difficulties in Learning Short Story Writing Skills for Class IXC Students of Singaraja State Junior High School 2016/2017 Academic Year".
In e-journal 2016, Vol: 5, No: 3, page 7.
In this chapter, the researcher presents the conclusion of the material and suggestion for the English teacher, students, and further researcher who are interested in similar or relevan research.