A study of narrative organization by third-year English majors at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University

This study aimed to analyze the organization of narrative compositions written by third - year English majors at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. Thirty students' narratives were analyzed by the researcher and checked by a native speaker of English in terms of Labov' s narrative pattern (1972). The result of the study showed that most of the students could not write according to the pattern investigated. More than haft of the compositions (62.07%) contained all the six elements; however, only 10.34% had these six elements arrangeg in the appropriate order.