Purposes of the Study

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 writing narrative text by using those media are compared in order to know which media is better one.

1.9 Outline of The Report

This final project is developed into five chapters that can be explained as follow. The first chapter is about introduction of the study; include several points within, such as background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, research problems, research hypothesis, purpose of the study, significance of the study, and outline of the report. The second chapter describes review related literature that contains review theoretical background, and also review the previous study. The third chapter describes about methods of investigation, research design, and also methods of collecting data. Then the fourth chapter is about data analysis and discussion. The last chapter consists of conclusion and suggestion.