Students’ Ability in Applying Tenses in Writing Narrative Paragraph

Abstract

This research aimed to describe the students’ability to write a narrative paragraph. This research was conducted at the VIII grade students of MTs.Aisyiyah at Jl. Demak No. 3 of the academic year 2016-2017. The sample of the research was 19 students. This research applied total sampling method because all the population was taken as the sample. Completion was used as the instrument of the research in which there were 12 blank spaces to fill. Based on the result, it showed that there were three levels of test items.:There were 8 or 66.7% of the test items categorized easy, 4, or 33.3% of the test items were categorized moderate and there was no difficult test item. The result of this research was that there were 89% of students or 17 students who were able to analyze narrative paragraph. 11% of students or two students who were not able to analyze a paragraph of narrative