THE USE OF GRAPHIC ORGANIZER METHOD TO TEACH NARRATIVE TEXT IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This paper is about teaching narrative text using graphic organizer method to the senior high school students. Its objectives are to describe how to use graphic organizer as method for teaching narrative text for senior high school students and to describe some benefits of the use of graphic organizer as method for teaching narrative text for senior high school students.

Using graphic organizer as method in teaching narrative text is very good to be applied. There are three phases in using this method. They are pre teaching, whilst teaching and post teaching. In pre teaching, the teacher shows the picture to stimulate students’ mind, the teacher discuss the picture given with students, and the teacher gives students a narrative text and asks them to read loudly. In whilst teaching, the teacher explains generic structures of narrative text, the teacher writes the form of graphic organizer in white board, the teacher fills each generic structure of narrative text in graphic organizer, and the teacher explains lexicogrammatical features of narrative text based on each event. In post teaching, the teacher gives students questions based on the text given.

On the other hand, there are some benefits of using this method to teaching narrative for senior high school students. they are (1) The teacher can give motivation to the students and they can enjoy the learning process, (2) the students can understand lexicogrammatical features of the narrative text such as simple past tense, action verbs, adverb of time and place etc easily and generic structures of narrative text, and (3) it makes the teaching and learning process clearer and more communicative.

The writer hopes that this paper will be useful for the English teachers as their way to teach reading text especially narrative text. for the students, the writer hopes that they will be interested and active in the learning process by that strategy and they also can understand reading text, especially narrative text easily.