Relevant Studies LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

generate ideas spontaneously then to organize them to be the comprehensible text production by the students. Teachers can use the photographs to give motivation, to enhance the students‟ self confidence and to draw attention during teaching learning writing process. Overall, students can use this media too to share their writing product to the other students through some social network sites such as Facebook. As the result, photographs provide a sense of context of the language with a specific reference and stimulus for the students when they are writing. The conceptual framework of the study can be described as follows: \ Figure 2.4 Diagram of Conceptual Framework The problems of teaching and learning writing process at seventh grade students of SMP 4 Magelang 1. Students‟ confusion in generating ideas spontaneously and to organize these ideas into texts. 2. The use of supporting media in the teaching and learning process of writing did not encourage or motivate the students enough. Ways to enhance students‟ writing performance Teenager and Social Media Media Photographs a. Helping students remember the detail about people, places, and events. b. Capturing anything such as the characterizations, the appearances, and the sequences of events. c. Giving motivation and drawing attention from the learner. d. Provide a sense of context of the language with a specific 49

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Research Settings

The research was conducted in SMP N 4 Magelang. The school is located in Magelang, Central Java. Administratively, SMP N 4 Magelang has 36 teachers including 4 English teachers, 15 staffs consisting administrative staffs, librarians, laboratory staffs, security, and janitors. This school has 18 classrooms in good condition also some supporting facilities such as multimedia Lab., science Lab, mosque, canteen, library, and school yards. Then, there is a language laboratory which was not used again as in every class has been completed with the language laboratory devices such as speaker, LCD and CPU., these devices sometimes do not work well and interrupt the teaching learning process. The research study was carried out in class VII F in the second semester in the academic year of 20132014. It was conducted from February to June 2014, starting from the preliminary observation to the implementation of the use of photographs to enhance the students‟ writing performance of the seventh grade students at SMP N 4 Magelang. The class consisted of 28 students. The number of female students was more than males. There were 17 females and 11 males. The English subject was held twice a week at Thursday 10.45-11.25, 11.40-12.20 and Saturday 08.30-09.10, 09.25-10.00. The classroom of grade VII F was quite large. It was supported by some equipment such as white board, LCD, CPU, and speaker. As usual, the students had to