Implementing Process Approach to Improve the Ability of Writing Narrative Text of the First Semester Students Majoring Food and Beverage Study Program in Balikpapan State Polytechnic

The study was aimed to know (1) How is the improvement of students’ learning behavior during the implementation of process approach to write narrative text? (2) How is the improvement of the students’ writing ability after the implementation of process approach to write narrative text?. The purpose of this study was to improve students’ learning behavior and ability in writing narrative text through Process Approach. Research design used in this study was Classroom Action Research (CAR), this study was conducted in two cycles, and each cycle consists of planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The data of this study were obtained by writing test and observation on the students’ writing behavior and the researcher performance in implementing process approach in the classroom.The result of this study showed that there is 77.08% of students improved their learning behavior in cycle II, the result of writing test in cycle II showed that there were 23 students or 72% of students who scored greater than or equal to 70. This study also showed that the average score of students’ writing score was improved from 62.81 in cycle I to 70.63 in cycle II. According to the result of this study it is concluded that implementing process approach in teaching writing can improve students’ learning behavior and also improve their ability in writing narrative text.Keywords Writing, Process Approach, and Narrative Text