The Students’ Comprehension on Clauses of Contrast in the Narrative Texts at the Eleventh Grade Students in MAN Kualasimpang

The research analyzed the students’ comprehension on clauses of contrast in the narrative texts at the eleventh grade students in MAN Kuala Simpang. In this research, the writer used qualitative method. The researcher had chosen the eleventh grade students of MIA 1 class in MAN Kuala Simpang and the objects of the study were 23 narrative texts produced by eleventh grade students of MAN Kuala Simpang. Writing test and questionnaire as the instrument of the research. The instrument was carried out to describe students’ comprehension on clauses of contrast in the narrative texts. It was started from 2nd October to 3rd October 2015 at the eleventh grade students in MAN Kuala Simpang. Afterwards, the result of this research was analyzed by using descriptive analysis to find the result of the data. The result of the research showed from 23 students there were only 9 students (39,1%) who can make narrative texts by using clauses of contrast and 14 students (60,9%) still cannot use a clauses of contrast. The result of the research showed that students’ comprehension on clauses of contrast in the narrative texts was still low. This case was caused by the students failed to apply formula of complex sentence in writing clauses of contrast. They had difficulties to combine two sentences which consist of one independent clause and one dependent clause in complex sentence because the students did not know kinds of conjunction especially in clauses of contrast.