Enhancing Narrative Writing by Using Genre Based Approach For 8 Graders

Abstract

Narrative text is one of text genres which is learned at primary schools, and, based on the writer’s experience as a teacher, found difficult by students. Yet, the skill to narrate in both spoken and written way is necessary to be mastered by students to have communicative skills in English. Thus, this study focuses on the approach being used by teacher in teaching narrative text for 8 graders of SMPIT Bina Insani Kediri. Genre based approach is chosen to improve students’ skill in composing narrative text by following these steps, namely Building Knowledge of Field (BKoF), Modelling of Text (MoT), Joint Construction (JCot) and Independent Construction (ICot). The study was conducted by using qualitative approach by doing 3-time observations, documents consisting of 27 pieces of students’ works with scores, also interviews to teacher and students. After analysing the data, a conclusion was drawn that students’ narrative writing are improved after being taught by using Genre Based Approach.