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have interesting characters, a lot of word repetition, action oriented, and told in very simple sentences.
Second, it is a research done by Putri 2013. In her research, she showed that pictures are suitable for children and met their characteristics. The research
showed that the use of pictures helped the students to understand the materials better.
In conclusion, the studies support the idea to develop picture series as media for the teaching English through storytelling.
C. Conceptual Framework
As discussed above, listening skill is important to be mastered. Students need to learn the skill in order to prepare to acquire the other skills. Teaching listening,
especially to children, is not an easy work. There are some principles that should be understood by teachers. They relate to children characteristics. Teachers should
provide fun listening activities because students will be familiar with spoken English words unconsciously.
In creating fun learning atmosphere, interesting media can be used to get students attention and make the lesson enjoyable and memorable. The media can
be also used to help the teacher to explain the materials. Furthermore, the fun atmosphere can also be created by telling stories to students because young
students basically love stories. Considering the need of developing the students
‟ listening skill and creating the appropriate media for teaching listening, the researcher finds out that using
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picture series will help teachers to deliver stories and students to understand the story line. In addition, the following diagram explains the conceptual framework:
Figure 2.1: The Conceptual Framework of the Research
Students’ needs of learning English listening skill
Listening class problems:
The lack of listening practice
The lack of ready-to-use media
The lack of fun listening activities
The advantages of using picture series to teach English through storytelling
The need to develop Picture series for teaching English through storytelling to the fifth grade
students of elementary schools
Conducting Need Analysis
Writing the Course Grid
Designing the Media
Producing the Media
Assessing the Media
Revising the Media
Trying Out the Media
Evaluating the Media
Developing the Final Media
The availability of picture series for the fifth grade students of SD IT Insan Cendekia
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D. Research Questions
1 What are needed by grade five students of SD IT Insan Cendekia in learning
English especially English listening skills? 2
How can a course grid be developed? 3
How to develop picture series? 4
How are the picture series being evaluated? 5
How are the picture series being revised?
