In addition, Kurniawan also mentions some advantages of story map strategy as follow:
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1. The story mapping is a highly effective, practical way to help students
organize story content into a coherent whole. 2.
It is an effective strategy for exceptional and low achieving students it improves comprehension of materials that are above their instructional
levels. 3.
Teachers become more involved in thinking about the structure of the story they are to teach and how each part of the story relates to the others.
4. These concrete representations aid students in visualizing the story.
5. Students can more easily see how the story pieces mesh, knowledge they
continually apply when they predict what might happens next in one story after another.
6. It enables students to store information in their personal schema more
efficiently and facilitates the recall of story elements more completely and accurately.
On the other hand, story mapping also has some disadvantages. First, it cannot be applied in other types of text such as descriptive, news item, report
because story mapping only requires elements of story. This map will appropriate to be applied in teaching writing narrative and recount text. Next, if students only
focus on the drawing of their story mapping, they can waste their time to write because they spend much time in making their story mapping.
C. Teaching Narrative Text Using Story Mapping
In this research, the writer attempts to use story mapping technique in teaching writing of narrative text and find out the effectiveness of the technique.
Firstly, the students were given the instruction about what they were going to do and why they should use story mapping in writing of narrative text. The
instruction might encourage the students to be more enthusiastic about what they
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were going to learn and it was important that students should know what they were going to do and gave them ideas when they finished the task.
Next, an example of story mapping was given to the students in which consists of some elements of narrative text such as setting, characters, problem,
and resolution and explained how to create a story mapping. Then, students had to complete those elements. Students were ordered to write a narrative text, the topic
was decided by her. Students had to create a story mapping by themselves for their own story before they began their writing. They had to fulfill each elements
of narrative text which was provided in the story mapping. In the part of problem, they had to write the chronological of some conflicts which might occur in their
story. After they finished in completing their story mapping with their ideas, they might start writing their story with using story mapping as their guideline in
writing process. Following the story mapping could make students easier in organizing their thoughts and ideas.
During the activity, while students were working individually, the writer’s role was a monitor, went round the class, watched and listened if there was a
student who wanted to ask about story mapping. She had to be ready in helping them with the task. Furthermore, she could also be as an observer who picked up
information about students’ progress. In arranging the lesson plan of the teaching and learning process, the writer
used the syllabus in creating the lesson plan and the test which is used in this research. For the writer, syllabus could help her to guide and arrange the lesson
plan RPP during the learning teaching process. When she made a test to evaluate the students, syllabus was also useful to use in observing the test whether the test
is appropriate or not. The syllabus itself might include the standard of competence, based competence, materials, indicators, time location, learning
activities and evaluation. In this study, the writer uses a syllabus to guide her in constructing the lesson
plan RPP and the instruments of the research. It is as a principle to make a test. The syllabus can be seen in the appendixes.
