The aim of the current study was to delineate the efficacy of teaching narrative texts by using Timorese folklore as teaching material. The subjects in this study were seventh-grade students of SMPN Noemuti. The data procurement technique comprised observation, questionnaire, and test. Observation was carried out to find out the activities of students, a questionnaire was conducted to figure out the students' responses regarding the integration of Timorese folklore in learning, and a test was

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... dertaken to find out the students' learning outcomes. The result of the study revealed that in learning narrative texts using Timorese folklore, students' activity reached 82% in the very good category, student learning outcomes achieved an average score of 81,5 which categorized as very good, teacher and student responses reached 97,2% which was categorized as very good. Thus, it was concluded that Timorese folklore was very effectively applied in teaching narrative texts to seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri Noemuti.