IMPROVING THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF RECOUNT TEXT THROUGH PICTURE SERIES AT SMPN 1 SILIRAGUNG IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

In Cycle 2, the students were still given feedback with the correction of their errors that they made in their writing. It was done in the first and the second meeting in Cycle 2. They also got more explanation about simple past tense (regular and irregular verbs) and connectors in order to make them not confused about how to write a good recount text. Related to the students’ mother tongue, the researcher gave more explanation to the students about what activities shown in the picture series first. In this way, the students did not need more time in translating their ideas from Javanese to Indonesian and Indonesian to English. The students were also allowed bringing dictionary in Cycle 2 to help them in finding the words they were not familiar with. By doing this, the students were expected to understand about how to write recount text by using picture series better than in the first cycle.