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
including only the sentences that relate the topic. A good narrative paragraph has
a topic which is narrowed down; the sentences are chronological order, and all the sentences which only discuss the topic. Therefore, it needs the controlling idea of
the writer to keeping the idea based on the topic discussed in the story. It also makes the reader can catch the meaning of the story. The writer needs a media to
control the idea. Media is mediator between teacher and student in teaching and learning
process. One of media to help the students controlled their idea in writing narrative text is pictures series. This media is used to stimulate the participation of
the student in learning process. It is needed to make learning process more attractive. It makes the material easier to be accepted by the student. Pictures
series is also intended to make students ‟ motivation in study increased. Pictures
series are an art which is used to draw are unmovable goods if they arranged well. Picture is a drawing object. It is one of visual aids that are very useful in
teaching, especially for English teaching. A picture series not only provide the students with the basic material for their composition but stimulates their
imaginative powers. Pictures can really help the learners to ease them in comprehending the meaning of a word, a sentence, or a paragraph. By using
picture, the learners can get the imagination about the objects or the situations. Picture consists of lines and shapes which are drawn, painted, or printed on a
surface. It also shows a person, thing, or scene. It helps the students attracted to create their ideas in writing narrative text. The students have imagination about
pictures they saw. Pictures series have a number of related composite pictures linked to form a series or sequences. It makes the students
‟ writing skill in narrative text will be cohesive and systematic.
The writer thought that those definitions have close connection to one another. It can be supported from some theories stated in this chapter by linguists. One of
the writer‟s purposes in conducting this study is to help students solving their problem in writing narrative text. Many linguists agreed that pictures series is
effective to be used as the media in writing narrative text. Some teachers only
