reading. Pictures are useful for getting students to predict what is coming next in a lesson. Thus students might look at picture and try to guess what
it shows.”
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F. Previous Studies
The studies about the use of picture series for language teaching are abounding. First study is by Setianingrum, she did a study about the use of picture
series on teaching vocabulary, especially in the second year class at MI Arrohmah Depok. The respondents are 34 students of the second year.
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The second research is by Haryanto, his research is conducted to find the effectiveness of using pictures toward students‟ understanding of preposition of
location at the first year of SMPN 164 Jakarta. The respondents are 70 students 35 students of experiment class and 35 students of control class. Based on the research
findings, it can be concluded that learning through picture has served a positive influence, so it can be used as an alternative method in learning preposition of
location.
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The third research is by Fiqrie, his research is conducted to find the effectiveness of using pictures in teaching reading of procedure text at ninth grade of
SMP Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang Selatan. The respondents are classes 9.1 and 9.4. He had been taught reading of procedure text throught pictures in 9.1 class and He had
been taught reading of procedure text without pictures in 9.4 class. Based on the reasearch findings, it can be concluded that students comprehension on this kind of
text not only affected by pictures but also might be determined by their vocabulary
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Harmer, op.cit., pp. 178 —179.
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Dwi Setianingrum, Teaching Vocabulary Using Picture, Jakarta: English Education Departement, 2012.P. 42.
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Agus Haryanto, The Effectiveness Of Using Pictures Towards Students ’ Understanding of
Preposition of Location, Jakarta: English Education Department UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, 2012.P. 40.
mastery and intelligent level of students in both class, particularly in English subject that relatively equivalent.
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The differences of this research with their studies are this research did about the use picture series towards students reading comprehension, especially in narrative
text. Participants of this research are second grade students of junior high school. Those all the researcher using picture but they had differences on variable Y. And
those all participants mentioned above their participants at Junior High School except Setianingrum she used participants at elementary school.
G. Thinking Framework
Narrative is kind of story consisting of series of events which is constructed in a chronological order. A narrative not only about an events ended with what the story
happened but also narrative is an event which the writer have the purposes to make an interesting text, to entertain the reader, and to make the reader have the experiences
same as the text about. This kind of text has become one of the English texts that must be mastered by junior high school students. Therefore, as an English teacher
have to be creative, especially in teaching reading how to achieve students‟ understanding of reading text. Because, most of students when they faced English
text many students found to be bored and feel difficult to get the message to grasp the meaning of the text.
Therefore, some English teachers can choose several techniques in teaching reading such as using mind map and picture series. Those techniques aim to make the
students enjoy reading English text. One of the techniques in teaching reading is using picture series in which it can stimulate students to focus to the picture is given
by the teacher in the beginning to read the narrative text.
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Mochammad Fiqrie,Teaching Reading of Procedure Text Thorugh Pictures, Jakarta: English Education Departmen UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, 2011. P. 50
