commit to user 29
3 The vocabulary needed to tell the whole story or describe the whole theme can be discussed, so there will be less hesitation when the
students do the telling or describing. 4 Seeing how the story or theme ends, students can shape their oral work
more effectively, can build up to a strong climax or conclusion and can judge how many words are needed which is important in language
examinations in which picture composition plays a part. 5 Class time is saved by putting up pictures in advance.
B. Review on Related Research
There are some previous researches related to the use of pictures in the
teaching and learning process. Japarudin 2006 conducted a study on applying picture series at SMP. The pictures he used were drawings which showed
sequential events, the events showed in the pictures were complete from the first to the last event. This was for teaching writing recount paragraphs. The students
here worked in groups of four before they wrote individually. He scored the students’ writing recount by using scoring scale, which consisted of three aspects;
content, language use, and spelling. Based on the results of that research, he found that the teaching using picture was able to improve the students’ ability in writing
recount. Second, Lailawati 2009 conducted a study on applying incomplete
picture series technique at MTsSMP. Based on the results of her research, she found that incomplete picture series teaching was successful in improving the
commit to user 30
students’ speaking ability as well as increasing their involvement in the teaching and learning activities.
C. Rationale
The basic competence of writing which should be mastered by the students in junior high school is expressing meaning by using vocabularies, grammar and
the steps of rhetorical development accurately in the forms of narrative, report, descriptive, recount, and procedure. These should be supported by competences
namely linguistics competence, socio cultural competence, strategic competence, and text former competence. However, the problem is that the students of Class
IX A are not able to write in English well. The problem is indicated by they lack of vocabulary, they got difficulties
in how to start to write, they got difficulties to choose appropriate dictions, they did not organize their writing well, they sometime lost their ideas and got stuck,
and the students were not able to make grammatically correct sentences. The difficulties come from techniques and media were used in the
teaching-learning process. The teachers still used traditional techniques in which he only demanded the students’ writing product. He only gave fewer portion of
writing even though writing is a complex skill. The teachers made the students write a text where they had to follow written language rules. He seldom taught
writing by using various techniques. The techniques used were monotonous. In teaching learning process, it is very important for the teacher to use a
appropriate media to arouse the students’ interest and it make the students easier to understand and to write procedure texts. Picture Series PS is able to make
commit to user 31
communication in the foreign language class more lively, naturally, and stimulating. It also helps the students to offer ideas to train language skill.
Besides, the vocabulary needed to write the steps or to describe the theme can be discussed, so there will be less hesitation when the students tell, describe, and
write procedure texts. Using picture series in teaching procedure texts can help the students to
understand the texts easily. To understand a procedure text, the students must know about the generic structure of procedure texts that consist of: goal, material,
and steps. Using picture series, the students can create a context within which
students with the information use it in controlled practiced work. It shows objects, actions, events and relationship can cue answers to questions, substitutions, and
sentence completion. It also can improve the students ability in writing procedure texts, where the procedure texts is sequence of steps and picture series is a
sequence of events or steps too.
D. Action Hypothesis
