IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH PICTURE SERIES

Abstract

The objectives of the research are: (1) to find out whether picture
series can improve the students’ skill in writing narrative text; (2) to describe
the classroom situation when picture series is applied in teaching writing
narrative text. The subject of the research is the students of class VIII of Junior
High School in the academic year of 2012/2013. The research data were
collected through observation, interview, field notes, document analysis,
photographs, and test includes pre-test and post test. The qualitative data were
analyzed by assembling the data, coding the data, comparing the data, building
interpretation, and repoting the outcomes. Meanwhile, the quantitative data
were analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the pre-test and the post
test.The research findings show that the use of picture series could improve
students’ writing skill and classroom situation during teaching learning
process. It can be seen that the mean score was 61.42 increased to 66.53 in post
test 1, and 78.72 in post test 2.