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1. A series of pictures of random objects
Students are shown a set of random objects, such as a tree, a house, a car, a boy, a cow, and an old man. Then they are assigned to write a text
containing all those objects. The text has to connect one picture to the other.
2. A series of pictures in sequence
It is easy for students. In this activity, they are faced with sequence of picture. What they have to do is to write a story based on their own
imagination or idea the pictures as a clue.
3. Teaching Writing in Junior High School
a. Writing in Junior High School
The teachers rarely use some interesting media. They usually give the students examples of any kind of texts that will be learned on that day.
However, they seldom have a class discussion about the text. They are directly asked to write a text in writing after the teachers show the examples.
They do not have enough chance to sharpen their writing ability. This situation is one of the causes why they still find difficulties in developing
ideas. The researcher will only deal with the eighth grade students of class
VIII B. in the first semester in the academic year of 20132014. Standard of competency of writing as in Indonesian English Curriculum for the eighth
grade students in the first semester in National Standardized School cover:
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Table 1: Standard of competences and basic competences of writing skills for Junior High School students at the eighth grade semester one.
StandarKompetensi 6.
mengungkapkanmaknadalamt eksfungsionaltulisdanesaipen
deksederhanaberbentuk descriptive, recount,
exposition untukberkomunikasidenganli
ngkungansekitardandalamkon teksakademik.
KompetensiDasar 6.1
mengungkapkaninformasidalamteksfun gsionaltulispendeksederhanasecaraakur
at, runtut, danberterimauntukberkomunikasidenga
nlingkungansekitardanataudalamkontek sakademik
6.2 mengungkapkanmaknadalamesaipende
ksederhanaberbentuk descriptive, recount,
eksposisisecaraakuratruntutdanberterim auntukberkomunikasidenganlingkungan
sekitardanataudalamkonteksakademik.
From the table, researcher can conclude that the standard of competency of writing in Junior High School is producing the meaning of
simple essay related to several text types in the written form in the context of daily life and academic purposes to interact with the environment. In this
case, he is going to focus on the text type only. The text type that is going to be used here is the descriptive text.
4. Picture-cued Activities
According to Brown 2003:226, picture-cued activities offer a nonverbal means to stimulate written responses. It means that by giving
students pictures, it is easier for them to get the idea from the picture. After they understand the idea, it will be much easier for them to generate the idea.
There are actually three kinds of picture-cued activities. They are a short sentence, a picture description, and a picture sequence description.
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