UTILIZING PICTURE SERIES TO IMPROVE THE WRITING ABILITY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS

megawati megawati

Abstract


Writing as known as complicated language skill. It is caused by the complexity of some elements in writing that should be fulfilled to make it interesting. It is avowed that fulfilling its elements is a difficult matter for junior high school students. They faced some problems when they assigned to make a piece of writing, even in the simplest one. To solve the problem faced by the students in writing, it needs to conduct a classroom action research by utilizing picture series strategy. The the research aim to describe the utilization from picture series in writing ability at seventh-grade students. After conducting the research, it is noted that students’ writing ability was improved. The research result showed that 18.19% or 2 of 11 students reached an excellent category of writing ability. Next, 63.63% or 7 of 11 students and 18.19% or 2 of 11 students were classified respectively into the good and average category of writing ability

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