Summary Report of Cycle 2

Besides the improvement of the students’ motivation during the research, the researcher and the collaborator also found other findings about students’ writings which are explained in the table below. Table 14: The Results of Students’ Writing in the Research Aspects of Writing Pre- condition Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Content Many students could not develop their ideas and some of their writings could not be evaluated. Some students could develop the topic based on the picture series given. However, they could only produce limited sentences. Most students could develop the topic based on the picture series with the right components of an explanation text. They also could produce more supporting sentences related to the picture series. Organization Many students could not put their ideas clearly and orderly. Their writings were loosely organized in the terms of the generic structure of explanation text. Some students could write their ideas in a good organization of explanation text based on the picture series. Most students could write a good explanation text in a good organization based on the picture series. Vocabulary Many students had difficulties in the word choice so that the meaning was not appropriate. Some students could use effective words because there were rubrics of listing vocabulary in every picture of picture series given. But the rests still made mistakes in choosing the word. Most students could use effective word choice and word form mastery because there were rubrics of listing vocabulary in every picture of picture series given. Language Use Many students did some errors of agreement, tense, Some students did few errors of tense, agreement, and Most students could write effective word order, articles, pronoun, and sentence construction. sentence construction. construction and only few errors in tense, agreement, and word order. Mechanics Many students were not aware of applying punctuation, spelling, and capitalization. Some students were more aware of punctuation, spelling, and capitalization. Many students were more aware of punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

2. The Improvement of Students’ Writing Scores

In this part, the researcher presents the students’ writing score in the pre – test, post – test 1, and post – test 2. The researcher analyzed the students’ mean score in all aspects of writing namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. The tables below show the mean score of each aspects of writing. Table 15: Students’ mean score in the content aspect Component Pre – test Post – test 1 Post – test 2 Content 2.28 3.24 3.50 The students’ mean score in the content increased after the actions during the implementation of picture series. The students’ gain score was obtained by comparing the students’ mean score of pre – test and post – test 2 which was 1.22. Table 16: Students’ mean score in the organization aspect Component Pre – test Post – test 1 Post – test 2 Organization 2.05 2.82 3.17