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6. Pictures stimulate students to make inferences, predictions, and suppositions about the world beyond the picture and the classroom.
7. Pictures are useful to generate vocabulary and a number of ideas. Based on the explanation above, we know that the use of pictures has many
advantages in the teaching learning process. It is effective media that can be used in teaching writing. In this case, it is expected that the use of pictures will give a
good contribution to the students’ writing achievement especially in writing a recount paragraph.
2.7 Types of Pictures
Yunus 1981:49-50 classifies pictures into three. They are individual pictures, pictures in series, and composite pictures. They are defined as follows:
1. Individual pictures Individual picture is a single picture of an object, person, or activity. As
stated by Wright 1989:193, individual picture is a picture of single object. Individual picture has small size that can assist students to understand the
meaning of words. As stated by Yunus 1981:50, individual pictures are single pictures of objects, persons, activities such pictures vary in size from small
newspaper pictures and full page magazine pictures to poster-sized pictures. Example of single picture:
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2. Pictures in Series Pictures in series are used to tell the sequence of events of a story. As stated
by Wright 1989:201, pictures in series show sequences of pictures. Pictures in series show the relation of one picture to another. Yunus 1981:50 says that
pictures in series are a number of related composite pictures linked to form a series or sequence. It has function to tell a story in sequence of events. Pictures in
series help the students to get the meaning of a story easily. It can be found in textbooks, magazines, comics, and cartoon strips.
The example of pictures in series:
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3. Composite Pictures Composite picture is a kind of pictures that shows some activities and gives
a lot of information. Wright 1989:198 definescomposite picture as a picture that gives detailed information. It provides a lot of information of some activities that
happen in the picture and it describes places, activities, people, etc. In addition Yunus 1981:49 explains that composite picture is a large single picture which
shows scenes hospital, beach, canteen, railway station and street in which a number of people can be seen doing many things. Composite pictures are full of
information and it may be there are a lot of people doing different things. It is also can be used as complement to the text so, the students can understand the text well
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while looking at the pictures given. It is supported by Wright 1989:161, picture can be a complement to the text and it might add extra information which allows
the learner to infer what is intended but not clearly stated in the text. The example of Composite Picture:
taken from http:mikoarc.blogspot.com201309kartun-liburan-di-
pantai.html?m=1 As stated by Yunus 1981:49,composite pictures have the strengths and
the weaknesses. The strengths of composite pictures are as follows: 1. Composite pictures enable students to see places, people and events that they
would otherwise not see because of factors like distance, time, and cost. 2. In one composite picture we can get a lot of information.
3. Provide a clue to the meaning of details, either introducing it to the learners for the first time or reminding them of it.
The weaknesses of composite pictures are as follows: 1. A limited number of composite pictures are available commercially.
2. It is too difficult to create composite pictures in large size because it is time consuming.
Based on the weaknesses stated above the researcher has solution to handle those kind of weaknesses. There are two solutions that are used by the
researcher. First, the researcher uses the composite pictures which are available in
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the internet. Second, the researcher will show it by using projector in order to make the students can see clearly the picture displayed.
In this research, the researcher will choose composite pictures as teaching media to teach the students’ recount paragraph writing considering that the
English teacher of SMPN 4 Jember has not used composite picture as media in teaching writing especially writing a recount paragraph.
2.8 Composite Pictures for Teaching Writing A Recount Paragraph
