PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) p–ISSN 2614-6320 Volume 3, No. 3, May 2020 e–ISSN 2614-6258 Teaching Writing Narrative Text By Using Collaborative Learning|329 TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING Indra Rizki 1 , Deyan Noufaldi 2 , Yanuarti Apsari 3 1 IKIP Siliwangi 2 IKIP Siliwangi 3 IKIP Siliwangi 1 indrarizki99@gmail.com , 2 deyannoufaldi@gmail.com, 3 yanuar.apsari1@gmail.com Abstract Writing is an important skill that should be mastered by English learner. This research deals with teaching writing narrative text by using Collaborative Learning Approach (round table technique) and Scientific Approach. The subjects of this research were X RPL 1 as experimental class and X RPL 3 as control class. Both classes consist of 33 students. The objectives of this research are to know wheter or not the difference between students’ writing ability who were taught by using Collaborative Learning. This research employs the quasi experimental design. The instrument of this ressearch are writing test (pre-test and post test), observation, and interview. The data were analyzed by using statistical product and service solution (SPSS) 25 which through the normality and mann whitney process. The findings showed that the calculation result of gain score showed that the significance value was lower than 0.05 (0.0049 < 0.05) which means there is a difference between students who were taught by Collaborative Learning and those who were taught by using Scientific Approach. Keywords: Writing, Narrative, Collaborative Learning, Round Table Technique INTRODUCTION In English learning, there are four macro skills that should be learnt by students. The skills are reading, listening, writing and speaking. Writing is the one of four English skills that should be mastered by learner. Harmer (2004, p.31) as cited in Apsari (2018) stated that “ writing has always formed part of the syllabus in the teaching English”. Writing is a process of arranging words in which people express their thoughts, idea, feeling and opinion. Writing can be used as a communication tools in readable form. Writing can develop the students’ critical thinking. “On a general basis, writing can teach critical thinking by helping student’s organize, summarize, and integrate and synthesize diverse element into a coherent whole” Barkley et al (2005) as cited in Sipayung (2016). However, writing in English is often a challenge because it involves many components including grammar accuracy, sentence structure, choice of words and so on. Compared to other three skill, writing is one of the most difficult language skill to achieve by the students and to teach by the teachers Alwasilah (2005) as cited in Apsari (2018). Therefore, it is no wonder if writing in English is sometimes still a difficult thing for both non- native and native speakers. Previous studies revealed that many Indonesian students as an English for Foreign Languange (EFL) learner still have many problems in learning it because writing itself involves aspects of logically ordered and grammatical form. They also never think that english important, many of them also don’t put much effort to study it. Many students feel difficult to develop the ideas of what they want and put it down the ideas into sentence and even more complicated in grammar and diction. As Raimes (1983) cited in Saleh & Ibnian (2017) thinks that “when students