THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PICTURE SEQUENCES IN TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF MAN KUTOWINANGUN IN 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

The purpose of this research is aimed to improve students’ writing ability in teaching narrative text in the eleventh grade of MAN Kutowinangun. First, to describe the level of students’ writing ability after being taught by Picture Sequences. Second, to find out the effectiveness of using Picture Sequences in improving students’ writing ability. A picture sequence is a series of pictures that helps the students easier to write a narrative text. The result of pre-test before the researcher gave the treatment is 59.290, and the result of post-test after the researcher gave the treatment is 74.322. The result of t-test value is 4.526. The t-test value is higher than t-table. It means that using Picture Sequences is effective to improve students’ writing ability in teaching narrative text in the eleventh grade of MAN Kutowinangun in 2012/ 2013 academic year.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Picture Sequences, Writing Ability, Narrative Text