past progressive ”.
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It means that pictures stories as a starting point in writing exercises. Sometimes, it is also useful in focusing other skills, like speaking and
listening activities.
B. Previous of the Study
The writer has found three relevant studies which related to this research. The first study was taken from Mansur 2011 who studied the teaching English
entitled “Improving the Students Ability in Writing Narrative Text through Series Picture at the Tenth Grade of SMA PGRI I Tuban
”. The research was a classroom action research that dealt
with the use of picture series to improve the students‟ ability in writing narrative text at the tenth grade of SMA PGRI I Tuban. The
writer analyzed the data in a descriptive way. The result of the study showed that 1 the implementation of picture series in teaching narrative text is effective to
use because it can attract the students and motivate them in writing. It is also mentioned that through picture series, the students can get enough stimuli. The
students also could show their opinion about the picture so they can express their ideas, 2 the students‟ writing ability in narrative text after using picture series
was improved in each aspect. The students could develop the content of the story and organized it based on the generic structure. They also used the proper
vocabularies. It made the reader understood with the whole of the story. The average score in the first cycle was 65, and the average score in the second cycle
was 71. The second was taken from Sarinten 2010 which
entitled “Improving Students’ Skill in Writing Narrative Text through Picture Series at the Eighth
Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Cawas, Klaten in the Academic Year of 20092010”. The
study was a classroom action research. It aimed at finding out whether or not picture series can improve the students‟ skill and motivation in writing narrative
text. The result of the study, the writer found that picture series can improve students‟ motivation and students‟ skill in writing narrative text. Picture series can
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Jim Scrivener, Learning Teaching : The Essential Guide to English Language Teaching 3rd ed, New York: MacMillan, 2011, p. 350.
improve students‟ skill in writing narrative text and it became one of appropriate ways in teaching writing.
The third was taken from Lihnawati 2012 which entitled “The Use of
Picture Series to Improve the Writing Ability in Writing Narrative Text of the Eleventh Students of MA. Mathalibul Huda Mlonggo”. The study was action
research which consisted of two cycles. Each cycle consisted of one meeting. Every learning process of these cycles consisted of three stages: pre-teaching,
whilst teaching, and post-teaching. The result shows the effectiveness of picture series in improving writing ability in narrative. It is suggested that English
teachers can use picture series as an alternative media to teach writing narrative. They also should pay attention to size, color and attractiveness of picture series
which are used. Those previous studies above used as references for the writer in conducting
this study and also as the comparison between those relevant studies with the study conducted by the writer this time. The study was the effectiveness of
pictures series towards students ‟ writing skill in narrative text. The differences
between this study and previous studies were the objective of this study and the method of this study. The objective of this study was to find the effectiveness of
pictures series towards studen ts‟ writing skill in narrative text. The method of this
study was quantitative method and the design of this study was quasi experimental design. The effectiveness of pictures series can be seen from the increasing of
students‟ post-test scores in writing test.
C. Conceptual of Framework
Writing skill is one of skills which require students to represent and develop their own idea in a written form. Many students feel confuse on how to begin
writing a paragraph or get stuck on constructing certain genre of the text. Narrative is kinds of text which learned in Senior High School
. N
arrative presents the events chronologically from the first event to the last event
. W
hen the students write narrative paragraph that explain a sequence of events, they have to use the
present time. As the students write narration, they have to use the past time
