The background of the study in this research was based on the curriculum structure of Senior High School/Islamic Senior High School, the allocated time for English lesson between Natural and Social study program is four hour per week. In MA NU Banat, the teacher of English subject for students at eleventh grade of Natural and Social study program is different. The problems of this research can be stated as follows: (1) How is the way to teach narrative writing at eleventh grade of natural and social study program? (2) What is the difference of students’ narrative writing skill between those in natural and those in social study program at eleventh grade of MA NU Banat Kudus in the academic year of 2012/2013? The objectives of this research are: (1) to know the teaching of narrative writing for students of natural and social study program. (2) to know the difference of students’ narrative writing between natural and social study program.
This comparative study was conducted at MA NU Banat Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013. The subjects of this research were students of natural and social study program at eleventh grade. The number of these subjects was 96 students, they were 48 from natural program, and 48 from social program. The researcher used two instruments in gathering data: (1) documentation as the main data (2) interview and (3) questionnaire as supporting data.
By using descriptive quantitative approach in conducting the result, this research shows that (1) Teaching narrative writing is still difficult. It was caused by every student has difference capability in English especially in writing. (2) Generally, students of natural class are higher than students of social class in achievement result of narrative writing score of ttable = 2.63 in significant degree 1% and 1,99 in significant degree 5%, ttest 4.057. The criteria is ttable < ttest in fact ttable = 2.63 for 1% and 1.99 for 5%. So, ttable is not allocated among both ttable it means H0 is refused. So, alternative hypothesis which is said that there is significant difference between natural and social study program in achievement result of narrative writing skill is accepted. The average score of natural student was 75.53 and the average score of social student was 69 social study program. It meant that the natural student was better than social student in narrative writing skill.
Based on this research, the researcher hopes that the students should develop and build their motivation in order to learn in English especially in writing to get better score.