more meaningful and interesting way. It can be seen when the students get lesson from the teacher, sometimes they feel bored. It can be concluded that it is clear
that the pictures series is useful since they give contribution to the students and the teacher in the teaching learning process.
2.7 The Weaknesses of Picture Series
Media as one of the aids of the teaching learning procces also have disadvantages. In this case, here are the disadvantages in the use of picture in
series as teaching aids. Underhill 1987:67 lists the points of the disadvantages using pictures in series as media as follows:
a. As visual stimulus, picture series have a problem that students can miss the
point of the story because of personal or cultural reason. In this case, students who can miss the point of the story are unfimiliar with the activity given.
b. The students who have known about the vocabularies used in the pictures will
be at a strong advantage compared with students who are lack of vocabularies because there is no vocabulary supplied in the pictures.
c. It is hard to find suitable pictures in series for an amateur draw. Even
deciding on a good storyline can be a difficult task. Those are the disadvantes of the using pictures in series as media but
those do not mean all these thing can not be handled. The researcher chooses the appropriate pictures in series based on the accepted culture for the students. To
help the students to conduct the text writing, the vocabularies wil be supplied in the picture series. By the development of the technology, the researcher does not
draw the pictur series which is used in the research, but the researcher browses the pictures from internet.
2.8 Recount Text
Institutional Based Curriculum KTSP 2006 Junior High School states that there are six kinds of the text should be mastered by the students. They are
descriptive, narrative, procedure, recount, and report. Among those kinds of texts, the researcher intended to focus on recount text.
Zaida 2009:43 states that recount is a kind of texts which tells the story in series of events and it has the social function to retell or inform to the the
people about the past activity or past event. Futhermore, the purpose of recount text is to inform and entertain the
readers. The generic structure of recount text is explained as follows: 1.
Orientation: Introducing the participants, place, and time.
2. Events: Describing series of events that happened in the past.
3. Reorientation: it is optional of the stating personal impression of the writer.
The language features of recount text are: 1.
Introducing personal participation: I, my pet, etc. 2.
Using adjectives: happy, wonderful, sad, etc. 3.
Using time conjunction: first, then, next, etc. 4.
Using action verb: look, go, sleep, etc. 5.
Using simple past tense: I went to the market yesterday. The example of recount text:
Going Camping Last week, my friends and I went camping. We prepared
everything we needed for camping. We departed from home early morning.
After we walked for a half hour from the parking area, we reached the camping ground. then We built the camp next to a
small river. After that we took a rest. The next day, we spent our time to enjoy the scenery and
we took our pictures together. In the afternoon we went to the river and caught some fish for dinner.
At night, we held a fire camp night. We sang, danced, and even some of us performed a stand up comedy.
orientation
events
On Monday morning, we packed our bags and got ready to go home. It was really an exiting camping.
2.9 The Procedure of Teaching Text Writing through Picture Series
