NURFATIMAH KURNIA K: “ The Influence of Using A Picture Series on
(58430593) Students’ Writing Competence in Making
Narrative Text at Tenth Grade Students of SMA
PUI Ciwedus Kuningan.”
A picture series media is one of the methodologies from learning English.
Because it is help the students to write the text, which based on the pictures. It will
make the students feel interested and easy to write. Through A picture series media
the student able to write the text enjoyably. Then help them to improve their writing
competence.
The researcher found the tenth grade students of SMA PUI Ciwedus
Kuningan are lazy to write when the teacher ordered them to write English. Because
writing needs a high imagination and they have to write text correctly. While they
don’t master the English vocabularies and the grammar. They also don’t understand
about the generic structure of the text.
The aims of this research are to find out the students’ writing competence in
making narrative text by using a picture series (X1), to find out the students’ writing
competence in making narrative text without using a picture series (X2) and to find
out positive or significant influence of using a picture series on the students’ writing
competence in making narrative text.
This thesis uses quantitative approach in which the researcher uses some
technique: test. And the researcher uses the data that has collected and analyzed
percentage calculating for the quantitative data by using SPSS 16 for Windows XP.
Having analyzed the data, the writer found that the highest score of test
byusing a pictureseries on the students’ writing competence in making narrative text
is 85 and the highest score of test without using a pictureseries on the students’
writing competence in making narrative text is 60; proud, by using t-test formula
independent samples T test.The result using two tiled (Sig 0.025) for T table is 1.995
Compared with the T count is greater than T table.-11,708 >-1.995).
From the result above, it can be known that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected.
So, there is significant and positive influence of using a picture series on students’
writing competence in making narrative text. It means thatusing a pictureseries is one
of method to increase students’ writing competence in making narrative text because
by using a pictureseries students will understand the grammar, how to write well and
make students feel enjoy and interested to study English
