| dc.description.abstract | This classroom action research was intended to improve the VIII G students’
recount text writing achievement by using picture series as the learning medium at
SMPN 1 Jember. Based on the result of the preliminary study before conducting this
research, only 11.11% of students (4 of 36 students) got score 80 or higher, while
83.33% of students (30 of 36 students) got the writing score less than 80. The average
of the writing score in that class was still 70.5. According to the results of
interviewing the English Teacher, only half of the students were active during the
teaching-learning process of writing. Furthermore, based on that interview, the
students said that it was difficult to start writing and finding ideas to write. When they
had difficulty in finding and developing ideas about what they are going to write,
automatically they stuck at this step.
To overcome the main problem, picture series was chosen as the instructional
medium to improve the students' active participation and writing achievement. Yunus
(1981:50) defines picture series as a number of related composite pictures linked each
other to form picture sequences. It means that picture series can be used as the media
to guide students to write recount text. In addition, picture series has already had a
story. By looking at picture series, students can comprehend the story easily, since
picture series consists of several pictures which are related to each other. It is because
picture series have already contained ideas of the story and have already been
organized chronologically. Besides that, Wright (1989:2) states that pictures can
contribute to interest and motivation. Those were the basic consideration why the
researcher proposed and believed that picture series could improve students’ active
participation in teaching and learning process, and solve students’ problem in writing. | en_US |
