Improving Students’ Writing Ability In Narrative Text Using Picture Series (An Action Research At The Eight Grade Of Smp Negeri 2 Ampel Boyolali In Academic Year 2011/2012)

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This Research Aims To Find Out Whether Picture Series Can Improve Students’ Writing Ability Of The EighthGrade Students Of Smp Negeri 2 Ampel Boyolali. It Is Also Aimed To Find Out The Strengths And Weakness Of Using Picture Series In The Writing Class. This Research Is A Classroom Action Research, Which Is Conducted In Two Cycles. In The First Cycle There Were Two Meetings And In The Second Cycle There Were Three Meetings. Every Cycle Consisted Of Four Steps; Planning, Implementing, Evaluating, And Reflecting. In Collecting The Data, The Researcher Used Observation, Interview, Field Notes, Photographs And Test. The Tests Were Conducted Before The Action (PreTest) And After The Action (PostTest). The Researcher Analyzed The Mean Score Of Each Test To Find Out The Improvements Of Students’ Writing Skill After The Action Was Conducted. The Result Of The Research Shows That There Are Positive Improvements In Both Students’ Writing Ability And The Class Situation During The Teaching Learning Process. The Results Of The Tests Improved, From The PreTest (Conducted Before The Action) To The PostTests (Conducted After The Action). The Mean Scores Of The Test Result Are 56 For The PreTest, 66.74 For The PostTest Of Cycle 1 And 70.2 For The PostTest In The Second, And The Final PostTest Is 70.68. By Seeing The Picture Series, The Students Get The Idea About Topics So That They Can Easily Construct And Generate The Ideas Into A Narrative Story Based On The Picture Series Given. They Can Also Arrange Better Paragraphs Based On The Generic Structure Of Narrative Text. The Strength Of Using Pictures Series In Teaching Writing Is That They Improve The Students’ Writing Ability: The Students Were More Motivated In Joining The Writing Class, They Paid Much Attention When The Researcher Explain About The Picture Series And They Were Also More Confident When They Were Asked To Write Individually. However, The Weakness Of Using Picture Series In Writing Class Was That A Few Students Still Got Difficulties In Finding Appropriate Words With The Correct Spelling