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Fact Finding RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION

commit to user 52 than the other three language skills: listening, speaking and reading as shown on Table 4 below. Table 4. Rank of English Skill Difficulties Class XI A of MTs NW 1 Kembang Kerang in the Academic Year 20102011 No English Language Skills Number of Students Percentage 1. Writing 19 59,37 2. Listening 7 21,87 3. Speaking 4 12,50 4. Reading 2 6,25 Table 4 shows that writing score is 59.37 or there are 19 students who regarded writing as the most difficult language skill among of the other language skills. The students’ writing ability problems were shown by some indications as follows: 1 The students were not able to organize the words or phrase to become a good sentence or sentences: 2 The students were not able to construct a text chronologically: 3 The students got difficulties to choose the appropriate dictions: 4 The students were not able to make grammatically correct sentences.

B. Fact Finding

Based on the preliminary research done by the researcher in Class IX A of MTs NW 1 Kembang Kerang through observation, it can be concluded that there were two main causes from both teacher and students. The causes from the teacher were as follow: 1 He still used traditional technique in which he only commit to user 53 demanded the students’ writing product: 2 He only gave fewer portions for writings a complex skill: and 3 He made the students write a text that must fulfill the written language rules. On the other hand, he did not give sufficient attention to teach them how to write a text in English correctly: 4 The students were seldom taught to make a better writing by using various techniques and media. The techniques and media used were monotonous: 5 He did not consider that writing is a complex skill in which it needs time for revising the content, grammar, and organization. The causes from the students were as follows: 1 They got difficulties how to start to write and they could not continue their writing. 2 They often make a mistake in choosing words. 3 The students’ ability to organize sentences was low. It could be seen from their writings, the students did not organize their writing well, consequently their writing was incoherent. 4 They often made mistake in using punctuation. 5 They lacked of vocabulary. As a result, the result of their writing was under average and still far from that was expected. This finding was supported by the result of the students’ writing, the mean score of the students’ writing test was 51.906. Due to the fact above, the researcher makes an attempt to improve students’ writing ability by using teaching media. He tries to encourage the students to study English better by creating an interesting atmosphere that makes them enjoy the teaching-learning process and gives a bit fun. One of the teaching media which cover such kinds of activities is Picture Series PS, since “It is relatively cheaper cost, can provide the students with information to refer to, including objects, action, events and relationship”. Wright, 1989: 17 commit to user 54

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