Form The Implementation of Picture Series in the Cycle 1

83 Referring to the generic structure of narrative text, there were 8 students 30.77 who agreed, 13 students 50.00 who strongly agreed, and 5 students 19.23 who disagreed that picture series could help them in applying the appropriate generic structure of narrative to the story they made. The researcher also presented a statement related to the use of tense simple past tense to compose the story. There were 11 students 42.31 who agreed, 9 students 34.62 who strongly agreed, and 6 students 23.08 who disagreed that the use of picture series could help them in understanding the tense used for composing the story. However, the achievement was not in very high level. The researcher should clarify the focus on the second cycle for instance the form of the picture series should be improved, the focus on the vocabulary and also tenses. In the second cycle the researcher expected to achieve the very high level in the criteria. 3 Students‟ perception toward the learning process This was the last topic discussed in the questionnaire. There were 4 statements provided by the researcher. The statements were used to obtain the data of the students‟ perception toward what the researcher gave in the learning activities and also their achievements in composing the narrative texts. Here are the criteria of total mean score in this topic: 4.00 – 7.00 very low 7.01 – 10.00 low 10.01 – 13.00 high

13.01 – 16.00 very high

84 The total score of this topic was 13.62. It means that the students of class VIII F class of SMP Negeri 10 Surakarta had willingness to improve their writing skills since the level of the criteria was very high. By using picture series in learning composing the narrative texts, most of the students were motivated to write better than in the preliminary study. It could be seen from the questionnaire that 17 students 65.38 agreed, 4 students 15.38 strongly agreed, 4 students 15.38 disagreed, and 1 student 3.85 strongly disagreed to the use of picture series. Most of the students also viewed picture series as an interesting technique to be used since they were not bored with the activities. It was proved by the results that 18 students 69.23 agreed, 15 students 57.69 strongly agreed, 1 student 3.85 disagreed and 2 students 7.69 strongly disagreed that picture series made them not bored with the activities. Moreover, there were 14 students 53.85 agreed and 8 students 30.77 strongly agreed that they felt more confident and enthusiastic while engaging with the writing activities. There were only 3 students 11.54 disagreed and 1 student 3.85 who strongly disagreed to the statement.

d. Reflection

Generally, the implementation of the picture series in cycle one was going in accordance with the lesson plan. Based on the results of the observation checklist and field notes, the peer-observers stated that the researcher could manage the class well. The researcher had used clear voice and intonation. The researcher also used clear instructions to the students. The field notes especially