The purposes of this study was to describe the problems of teacher in teaching narrative text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Maliku. The research problem of this study was: what are the teacher’s problems in the teaching writing narrative text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Maliku.
In this study, the writer used qualitative method. In collecting the data, it used observation, interview, documentation and field notes. In analyzing the data, the writer used some techniques namely, data collection, data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/ verification. In endorsement the data, it used credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. The subject of this study was 1 English teacher that chosen by purposive sampling.
The main research findings were: the problems faced by teacher in teaching narrative text were: source from the school (media), source from the teacher, and source from the student. The main problems of teaching narrative text faced by the school (media) were: lack of the English book for student, lack of English and Indonesian dictionary, there was not Internet facilities in taking lesson materials, and the practice of writing not available of time. The main problems of teaching narrative text faced by the teacher were: lack of teacher guide, the teacher method was boring in the English classroom and the holidays combined with schedules of English lessons. The main problems of teaching narrative text faced by the student were: the lack of vocabulary, some of the students were lazy to get practice on writing narrative text, students’ difficulty on comprehending the materials but they were shy to ask, less of students interest English, the student did not have English-Indonesian dictionary, the students did not examples of the text from internet, the students’ crowded in the English class, and some students absent attending the class.