IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS THROUGH A PICTURE SERIES- AIDED LEARNING STRATEGY

Abstract

This classroom action research was designed to improve the students’ ability in writing a descriptive text through the use of a picture series-aided learning strategy. A class of tenth grade students of a public senior high school in East Java, Indonesia were used as the subjects of the study. The required data were collected through the use of a questionnaire, an observation checklist, and a scoring rubric. The data from the questionnaire indicated that the majority of the students had a positive attitude toward the use of the picture-series to learn descriptive text writing. Moreover, it was found from the observation data that the students participated actively in the learning process. Finally, the study also proved that the strategy improved the students’ writing with their average score increased from 56.86 (0-100 scale) prior to the teaching-learning process to 77.87 at the end of the treatment.