Media as the supports of the teaching learning process also have disadvantages because something that definitely has advantages also has
disadvantages. In this case, there are also disadvantages of picture series, Sadiman, et al 2006:31-32 explains the disadvantages on using picture series.
Those are picture series that are too complex are not effective for learning activities and the size is very limited for large groups. To overcome the
disadvantages above, the use of picture series in this research had to show the main point of the story clearly done, by choosing a particular picture that will
support the lesson. Due to the size, the researcher used big and clear picture series with the size were 20 cm x 30 cm distribute to each student for the teaching
learning process of speaking.
2.4. Recount Text
Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its social function is either to inform the purpose, to entertain or retell the events to
audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative. Recount is a piece of text that retells past event, usually in the
order in which they happened. The purpose of a recount is to give the audience a description of what occurred and when it happened Wahidi: 2008.
Derewianka 1990 classifies recount into three types; personal recount, factual recount, and imaginative recount. A personal recount depicts an event
which happened while the person who tells the event was personally involved. A factual recount is a note of an event. It is a list of fact in order that they occurred.
This includes things like scientific experiment report, newspaper report or a police report. Imaginative recount unfolds story which means it did not actually happen
in the real life. According to institutional level curriculum, the students in junior high
school have to learn some genre of text such as procedure, description, narrative and recount. This research focused on recount text for eighth grade students.
2.5. The Procedures of Teaching Speaking Through Picture Series
Picture series are often used as media in teaching learning process. One of the indicators of English teaching in junior high school is that students are able to
express the meaning of the functional spoken text and short simple monologue form of recount, narrative and procedure text to interact in the context of daily
life. In order words, students were expected to be able to make and tell a short story. As the media, picture series are useful for a teacher to guide the students to
stimulate their ideas. They were presented as a set of sequence of events or actions that could make the students organize ideas easily.
The teacher needed a set of procedures to teach the students to increase their speaking ability. The example of procedures of teaching speaking through
picture series were as follows:
Topic : Building a house
Material : Picture Series about the bear
s’ plan to build a house. Procedures
: a.
The teacher gave material that was learned. 1.
Teacher: Preparing a short story with the topic “building a house”. 2.
Past tense was used to prepare the story in front of the class. Example: - They worked on Monday until Saturday.
- Everybody in the family helped Mr. Bear.
3. Personal pronouns: I, You, They, We, He, She It.
4. Conjunctions: then, after that, before, when, because, and, finally,
etc. 5.
Related vocabulary: cut, put, paint, prepare, stone, logs, roof, door, together.
b. The teacher gave picture series with verbs as the key words to the students.
Cut the logs Put the logs
Prepare the stones Put the roof
Put the door Paint the door
Make a party
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c. The teacher asked the students to change the verbs used.
d. The teacher asked the students to observe the picture carefully.
e. The teacher then asked the students to make a draft of the story based on
the picture series given.
The teacher, at last, asked the students to perform the story in front of the class.
2.6. Previous Research Of Speaking Ability By Using Picture
