1.6 Significances of the Study
The result of the study will hopefully useful for English teacher, so it will upgrade the education in Indonesia. There are many advantages that can be
acquired from this study, they are;
a. Theoretically
This study is expected to be able to develop the previous study and give many contributions for education especially in Indonesia.
b. Pedagogically
This study will provide English teacher with the understanding of the media “authentic song lyrics” and “pictures” that used to teach eleventh
grade students to improve the students’ writing competence of narrative text.
c. Practically
This study is able to give variation within teaching learning in English, especially for narrative text through those medium. One of those
medium also can be used as an effective medium to improve students’ writing competence easily, especially in narrative text.
1.7 Definition of the Key Terms
In order to avoid ambiguity and also in order to make this study is easier to be understood by the reader, the writer explains the definition of the key terms as
follow:
a. Narrative text is a piece of writing that tells a story based on the chronological events to amuse the readers and it has characters inside
the story. b. Writing, according to Hornby 2000:1382, is an activity to put
information on a sheet of paper or to compose something in written form.
c. Media, according to Gerlach and Ely 1980:241, are any persons, materials, or events that establish conditions which enable learners to
acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes. d. Lyric, according to Hornby, 2005:921, is the word of a song.
e. Picture is description that gives you an idea in your mind of what something is like, give somebody the information they need to be able
to understand a situation. Therefore, Comparison between Using Authentic Song Lyrics and Pictures
as Media to Teach Students’ Writing Competence of Narrative Texts is defines as using media to improve students’ achievement in writing narrative text by using
those media and comparing which one of the media is better.
1.8 Scope of the Study
The study only conducted to eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Semarang in the academic year of 20132014. This study focused on writing
narrative text by using authentic song lyrics as media for the experimental group, and sequence of pictures for the control group. The students’ achievements on
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