Contributive Reason For Facing Difficulties in Reading Narrative Text (A Case Study of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 2 Sungai Tarab Registered in 2023/2024 Academic Year)
PUTRI NOVITA, No Reg. 2030104050, entitled: “Contributive Reason For Facing Difficulties in Reading Narrative Text”(A Case Study of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 2 Sungai Tarab Registered in 2023/2024 Academic Year). English Teaching Department Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Islamic State University of Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar.The problem of this research was unrevealed students’ difficulties in understanding narrative text. The purpose of this research was to describe the reasons students’ difficulties in understanding narrative text of eleventh grade at SMA Negeri 2 Sungai Tarab.This type of research was a qualitative research, a case study design. Thetechnique used in choosing informants was purposive random sampling. The informants in this research was eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 2 Sungai Tarab who had difficulty in understanding narrative text. In this research, the researcher acted as the key instrument and the interview guide as a supporting instrument. In collecting the data, she interviewed the research informants. To test the validity of the data, the researcher used a prolong engagement, namely by conducting additional interviews if there was insufficient or doubtful data or information regarding the consent requested by the informant during the first interview. To carry out data analysis, she referred to the theory (Miles and Huberman in Sari, 2022), namely: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and data verification. She conducted interviews based on the interview guide, then analyzed the results of the interviews, and drew conclusions and verified the research findings.The results of this research indicate that there were four students’ difficulties in understanding narrative text. The difficulties are: 1) Difficulty in understanding narrative text because unfamiliar word, 2) Difficulty in understanding narrative text because lack of motivation, 3) Difficulty in understanding narrative text because lack of plot elements, 4) Difficulty in understanding narrative text because lack of guess.