\ grade English teachers of SMU N 2 Klaten, the writer found that the students often
had difficulties in writing, including writing a narrative text. Moreover, SMU N 2 Klaten was accessible to the writer. Therefore, the writer conducted a study on the
tenth grade students’ textual features of narrative texts in SMU N 2 Klaten.
B. Problem Formulation
In this study, the writer intended to answer these questions: 1. What textual features do the tenth grade students’ narrative texts have?
2. What are the possible causes of the most frequent errors in the textual features of the tenth grade students’ narrative texts?
C. Problem Limitation
The participants of this study are the tenth grade students of the 20072008 academic year of SMU N 2 Klaten. Therefore, the results of this study do not
represent the textual features written by other students of any grade in the school. SMU N
2 Klaten is chosen because it is accessible for the writer. Meanwhile, the tenth grade students are chosen because it would be good for the students to know
their difficulties in their beginning semester to improve their narrative texts in the next semesters.
This study only focuses on the students’ textual features. The textual features that are described in this study do not take punctuation, spelling,
handwriting, and paralinguistic features of the students’ text into account. This study only describes the textual features of a narrative text that characterize a
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\ narrative genre. The textual features that characterize a narrative genre comprise
generic structure and linguistic features.
D. Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study are: 1. investigating the tenth grade students’ textual features of a narrative text.
2. investigating the possible causes of the most frequent errors in the textual features of the tenth grade students’ narrative texts.
E. Benefits of the Study
Teachers are expected to gain the benefit of this study as they will know the difficulties that occur in developing a narrative text among their students, so
that they might adjust their teaching-learning activities to benefit more. Students are also expected to gain the benefit of this study as they will be aware of their
mastery of textual features of a narrative text. This study presented the students’ textual features of narrative texts so that students might know their textual
features errors and have the chance to correct them.
F. Definition of Terms
