ABSTRACT

Damayati, Nisrina.2018. Using Picture Series in Teaching Writing Narrative Text of 10^th Grade Students at SMK Negeri 1 Banjarmasin in Academic Year 2017/2018.  Sarjana’s Thesis. English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Prof. Dr. H. Abdul Muth’im, M.Pd, the second advisor Dr. Rina Listia, M.Pd.

Keywords: Writing, Narrative Text, Media, Picture Series, Individual Picture, Achievement.

Building students’ motivation through media is an alternative way to make language teaching process runs effectively. In order to develop students’ writing skill in writing narrative text, teachers should prepare an interesting medium in teaching learning process. This research is aimed to find out the difference in students writing narrative text taught using picture series and taught using individual pictures of 10th grade students at SMKN 1 Banjarmasin academic year 2017/2018. This study used a quasi-experimental design with a quantitative approach. The population was 542 students with 60 students taken as sample by using cluster random sampling method. The data were collected by using achievement test and calculated by using Pearson Product Moment formula to determine the reliability of the test, while t-test formula was applied to test the result of the study. Based on the testing of hypothesis, it was found that the t-test was higher than the t-table (6.16 > 2.00) at the significance level of 0.05, which means that there is significant difference in students’ achievement of writing narrative text taught using picture series and taught using individual pictures. It can be concluded that X B Administration which was taught by using picture series had better achievement in writing narrative text than X C Administration which was taught by using individual picture. Therefore, it is suggested for the English teacher to use picture series in teaching writing narrative text or other genre of texts.