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Learning products which were obtained by the students In this part, the researcher presented 6 statements. The researcher provided
statements which were employed to observe students‟ achievement in composing
the narrative texts. The statements discussed the elements in narrative texts which must be achieved by the students: the organization of ideas, the use of
vocabularies, the arrangement of generic structure, and also the use of the appropriate tenses in the sentences. Here, the researcher made the criteria of the
total mean score: 06.00
– 10.50 very low achievement 10.51
– 15.00 low achievement
15.01 – 19.50 high achievement
19.51 – 24.00 very high achievement
The total mean score of this topic was 19.31. It indicated that the application of the technique picture series could help the students to improve
their writing skills. The criterion achieved was high. The activities and the techniques used in the first cycle could help them produce the better writing
product from the preliminary study. It could be seen that 10 students 38.46 agreed, 9 students 34.61 strongly agreed, and 7 students 26.92 disagreed
that picture series made them able to organize the ideas of the story. The researcher also provided a statement about finding the new vocabularies to be
used in the story. The results were 12 students 46.15 agreed 10 students 38.46 strongly agreed, and also 4 students 15.38 disagreed that picture
series could help them in finding new vocabularies to compose the story.
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
