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107 the students in composing certain text. The primary concern is what learners do with the language through the text Feez Joyce, 2002. Text-based approach is used as the approach to answer the questions of this study. The researcher conducted this classroom action research CAR in class VIII F of SMP Negeri 10 Surakarta. The focus of the study was to improve s tudents‟ writing skill in composing the narrative texts. The researcher, therefore, needed some steps to be conducted in the research. The aim was to achieve the goal of the research. The steps had been clarified in chapter 3. The researcher proposed picture series technique as the teaching and learning strategy to the students in order to improve their writing skills. To obtain the very first data of the classroom, the researcher conducted a preliminary study. The information gained in the preliminary study was used as the guidance in arranging the plans of cycle one. In conducting cycle one, the researcher employed several instruments to record the classroom practice. The researcher reflected the results of cycle one. The time management, group activity, and the way of presenting picture series to the students became the points noted by the researcher. The reflection guided the researcher to conduct the new strategy of cycle two. By implementing the new strategy of the activities and the technique using text-based approach in cycle two, the research concluded that the implementation of cycle two was satisfactory. The students‟ achievement and data recorded in the instruments as described in the previous sections did support the result that the classroom action research CAR which was conducted by the researcher was 108 satisfactory. For instance, the observation checklist and field notes helped the researcher to observe the improvements. Moreover, the writing scoring rubric showed the improvements in each aspect of writing skills. It was supported by the questionnaire and also the interview‟ results which were indicated that the improvements of the writing skill of the students. Finally, all of the research findings presented in this chapter gave evidences that the researcher as the practitioner of the classroom action research CAR conducted the action research successfully. The researcher conducted the successful changes in order to improve students‟ writing skills in the study by implementing the strategy of teaching; the technique and the activity so that the learning goal could be achieved. 109

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

In this chapter, there are two parts that will be discussed. The first part is the conclusion of the research. The second part provides suggestions for the English teachers who will implement picture series as teaching writing technique and also for other researchers who will conduct the same type of research.

A. Conclusions

This research was conducted to find out the appropriate technique to improve students‟ writing skills of the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Surakarta. There were two problems in this research: “to what extent picture series help class VIII F of SMP Negeri 10 Surakarta in writing narrative text and how is the use of picture series implemented in writing narrative text toward class VIII F of SMP Negeri 10 Surakarta to improve their writing skills.” In conducting this research, the researcher employed several research instruments to collect the data. The instruments were observation sheets, field notes, questionnaires, interviews, and students‟ drafts. These instruments were used to support each other in order to help the researcher in monitoring the students‟ achievement and to know whether the technique applied was appropriate or not. The researcher also used writing scoring rubric to assess the students‟ drafts and the revised written. The scores of the students‟ writing results became the major data of this research. The researcher assessed students‟ writing