B. Relevant Study
Marhaeni Siriwaji 2011 did a study through a series of pictures in teaching writing. A series of pictures is one of teaching media that can be
involved in the process of teaching and learning. The researcher had found three results of the research. The first result is that students’ ability in
constructing texts could improve by using a series of pictures. The second finding is that a series of pictures showed the effectiveness of the teaching
and learning process. It could improve their motivation and passion to learn English writing. They were found more creative to produce their texts. The
last result is that the cooperative learning among them could also improve by using a series of pictures. They got more chances to participate. They realized
that they had responsibility and confidence when exploring their writing skills.
Lesna Henny 2013 conducted a study on writing using picture series. She had a research about improving students’ skill of writing recount text by
using picture series for the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Seyegan in the academic year of 2012 2013. In her study, she analyzed the improvement of
using picture series to teach writing. The result of the study proved that the utilization of picture series could improve students’ writing skills on recount
text. Added to this, the activities during the teaching and learning process could improve the classroom interaction, students’ involvement, and students’
attention.
C. Conceptual Framework
Writing is one of the four English skills that has to be mastered by the students in learning English. Writing is a complex process in which some
requirements should be accomplished simultaneously. It means that the subskills of writing including grammar, diction, vocabulary, and generating
the idea have to be mastered to reduce errors made by the students on their writing. As the result, the objective of English teaching and learning process
is to improve the students’ writing ability. Although the objective of teaching writing has been set up, the
teaching writing is not successful yet. Most of students agreed that writing was difficult skill to master. In order to help the students to be able to develop
their writing competence, the selection media of teaching writing had to be considered effectively.
From the information obtained by conducting interview and observation, the researcher found the similar problem to teaching and learning
writing in SMA Negeri 2 Sleman. One of the problems came from the students. They still found difficulties in applying grammar, punctuation,
vocabulary, and generating ideas. They also had low motivation to get involve in teaching and learning process. In addition, the media that the
teacher used were not various because she just used LKS. It made the students feel bored and sleepy during the lesson.
Then, the researcher decided to use picture series with a combination of rubric vocabulary lists as the solution of those problems. Picture series was
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