Helping the Eighth Grade Students Write Recount Text via Photograph at SMPN 1 Jenggawah

Abstract

This research was aimed to describe how photograph can help students find ideas, select vocabulary, and organize recount text writing. Curriculum in Indonesia provided English as compulsory subject which was taught in junior high school level. The ministry of education and Culture considered that the student should develop the use of language to achieve the communication purpose as well as in written and spoken. Writing is also considered to have many obstacles to learn for the students. One of the appropriate media which can improve students’ quality of writing is photograph Based on the preliminary study by interviewing the English teacher and the document, it had been known that the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Jenggawah especially in VIII-H class had some problem in writing and it made their writing achievement low. Therefore, the objective of the research was to know how photograph can help students to find ideas, select vocabulary, and organize recount text writing. Photograph was selected as media because the students were going to be stimulated to create the sentences after they analyzed the photo. The research result was expected to be useful for the English teacher and future researcher