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quality of the learning process in teaching the students, the teachers are expected to do a research. Classroom action research is way for the teachers to find the
problem and solve it in the learning process. McNiff and Whitehead 2002 states that act
ion research is a name given to a particular way of researching someone‘s
learning p. 15. It involves several things to do like gathering the data, generating
evidence from the data and making claims to knowledge from validated evidence p. 16. Burns 2009 agrees that the central idea of the action part of action
research is to intervene in a deliberate way in the problematic situation in order to bring changes and, even better, improvements in practice p.3. It means that by
conducting a classroom action research, the researcher is expected to learn and solve the problems occurring in the learning process.
4. Pictures Series
The picture series in this study have the same meaning with picture sets, picture sequences or picture stories. According to Rivai and Sudjana 1991: 12,
as cited by Sagita 2009, a picture in this study is an illustration of picture that can be used as two dimensional representation of person, place or thing. Raimes
1983 states that a picture is a media for teachers to bring the outside world into the classroom in a vividly concrete way. She added that ESL writing teachers can
find valuable resources in pictures: drawings, photographs, posters, slides, cartoons, magazines advertisements etc p.27. Breitkreuz 1967 states ―Picture
series normally depict logical or continuous actions, situations, and thoughts and are arranged in a row coming one after another‖ as cited in Nugroho, 2011, p.7.
It can be said that picture series are media to represent outside world into the
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classroom and they are usually arranged in good sequences to show actions or situations.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents the review of theoretical writings and researchers related to the study matter. There will be two majors sections, theoretical
description and theoretical framework. The first section discusses all theories related to the research conducted by the researcher and the second section
summarizes all the theories which intended to help the researcher in finding the answers of research questions.
A. Theoretical Description
In this section, the researcher discusses all theories related to the research. There are theories about writing skill, narrative text, picture series and classroom
action research.
1. Writing Skill
There are two things to be discussed in this part. They are the nature of writing skill and teaching writing. The nature of writing skill part provides
information about the definition of writing and things related to the writing skill. Then, teaching writing part describes the relation between understanding the
nature of writing skill and teaching writing itself.
