dramatized. Every student can be given opportunities to predict it based on their ability to dramatize the event to gather their ideas.
Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that picture is one of media to give opportunities to the students to reveal or express more than their
writing before, picture helps them to recall their past, to think critically, and to bring them to their imagination about the idea of the pictures.
5. Picture Series
Betty Morgan defines a picture sequence as a series of pictures of a single subject. Its function is to tell a story or a sequence of events.
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It means picture sequence is a kind of picture which presents a chronological order. In this type, it
is presented in a series of picture that tells a story in some events. It usually tells experience, legend, or fable story, etc. From this picture series, learners will be
easier to understand the meaning of a word, a sentence or event or a paragraph after they saw the picture itself.
The definition of picture series above gives a clearly understanding that this picture series is usually used to tell a story by telling the sequence of events
that happen in it. It is a series picture tells of one idea of story. According to Wright, he states that picture series consists of cartoon strips
and instruction strips. Carton strips and instruction strips are potentially useful. Experience will show the teacher which strips are the most useful. The strips can
be kept as they are and used to contextualize a story on description of a process.
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It means that picture series need to use by the teacher to make students think chronologically on their writing based on which describe of a process. This
cartoon strips were the most found in daily life to represent picture sequences. It can be used to contextualize a story, therefore learners can know the sequence of
events happen in that story to find out the relation between the picture and the appropriate words to use.
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Betty Morgan Brown. Look here Visual Aids in Language Teaching, London: Language Teaching Series, 1973, p. 28.
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Wright, op. cit., p. 201.
All of the explanation above, it can be concluded that a picture series is a kind of pictures that has a series of an object or a situation is explained by some
pictures. This picture usually tells about a story, or an event about something that happened. The sequence must be presented in chronological order.
6. Application of Using Picture Series in Teaching Writing of Recount Text
Most of the students are lazy to write because they regard it as a complex and difficult English language skill. In their thought, it needs a long process to
write something. They also are often having no idea about the topic that will be written on their paper. Moreover, they are always getting stuck to tell and describe
the next plot of story after writing the introductory paragraph. Therefore, the teacher can use picture series to help them develop their ability in writing from the
pictorial story. In the classroom, the teacher can apply it to teach writing recount text.
After explaining about recount text, heshe can distribute the picture series to each student, and then ask them to retell and rewrite the story into paragraph in
English. This method is very easy to be conducted by the teacher in the classroom, and it will make the students feel fun in writing. Hence, teaching writing of
recount text by using picture series is an appropriate and recommended method for the teachers to apply in the classroom in the teaching-learning activity.
7. The Example of Picture Series
Picture 2.1 The example of picture series 1
