Fluency Forms The Implementation of Picture Series in the Cycle 2

103 story, the result was: 12 students 46.15 agreed, 11 students 42.31 strongly agreed, and 3 students 11.54 disagreed that the use of picture series in the second cycle could help them in finding the new vocabularies. It was proved by the statement of a student in the following interview report. Student 3: “ Menurut saya, kemampuan saya dalam menulis narrative text bertambah, Miss. Dari yang pertemuan satu dan dua, saya merasa lebih bisa menemukan ide, membuat kalimat menggunakan vocab baru dan mengerti generic structure di pert emuan yang ketiga.” In my opinion, my writing skills in composing a narrative text make progress, Miss. I think that in the last meeting, I get better in finding ideas, making sentences using new vocabularies, and understanding the generic structure rather than in the first and second meeting. The achievement of this criterion was very high achievement. The results improved, comparing to the criterion in the first cycle: high achievement. The picture series implemented in the second cycle could significantly improve their writing skill in composing a narrative text. 3 Students‟ perception toward the learning process This was the last topic discussed in the questionnaire. There were 4 statements provided by the researcher. The statements were used to obtain the data of the students‟ perception toward what the researcher gave in the learning activities and also their achievements in composing the narrative texts. Here are the criteria of total mean score in this topic: 4.00 – 7.00 very low 7.01 – 10.00 low 10.01 – 13.00 high

13.01 – 16.00

very high 104 The total score of this topic was 13.38. It means that the students of VIII F class of SMP Negeri 10 Surakarta were willing to improve their writing skills since the level of the criteria was very high. By using the picture series in learning composing the narrative texts, most of the students were motivated to write better than in the first cycle. It could be seen from the questionnaire that 13 students 50 agreed, 12 students 46.15 strongly agreed, 1 student 3.85 disagreed to the use of picture series. Most of the students also viewed picture series as an interesting technique to be used since they were not bored with the activities. It was proved by the results that 13 students 50 agreed, 11 students 42.31 strongly agreed, 2 students 7.96 disagreed to the fact that picture series made them not bored of the activities. Moreover, there were 12 students 46.15 agreed and 10 students 38.46 strongly agreed as they felt more confident and enthusiastic while getting engaged in with the writing activities. There were only 3 students 11.54 who disagreed to the statement. While conducting the interview, the researcher found that students‟ statement supported the finding above. Student 1 : “ Pembelajarannya menarik. Waktu tugas grup, aktivitasnya menarik. Itu membuat saya lebih semangat dan antusias dengan pelajaran bahasa Inggris.” The lesson is interesting. When the students are asked to do the group work, the activity is nice. It makes me feel more enthusiastic to the English lesson. Student 5 : “ Ya membuat saya lebih semangat nulisnya. Walaupun saya tidak suka menulis karangan bahasa Inggris, tapi kalau pelajarannya menarik seperti tadi, saya jadi lebih suka.” It makes me more enthusiastic in writing the text. Although, I don‟t like writing an English text, but if the lesson is interesting like that, I think I like it.