IMPROVING STUDENTS�

The objective of the study is to investigatestorytelling can improve students’ achievement in writing narrative text. The research of this study was conducted by using action research. The subjects of this study were the second year students of SMA N 1 Rao class XI IS 1 consisted of 30 students. The research was conducted in two cycles and every cycle consisted of four meetings. Quantitative and qualitative instruments were used to gather the data. Quantitative data was taken from students’ score in writing narrative text, while qualitative data was taken from diary notes, observation sheets and questionnaire sheets. Based on the data, the students’ score got improvement in every cycle. In Test I, the mean of the students’ scores was 63.13 while Test II, the mean of the stydents’ scores was 75.43 and in Test III, the mean of students’ scores was 82.53. it was found that teaching narrative text by using storytelling improve students’ narrative writing. It is suggested that English teacher use storytelling as one of alternatives way in teaching narrative text.