Utilizing Modern Picture Series to Teach Writing to Senior High School Students
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The fact based on the observation when the writer did teaching practice in one of senior high school at Kediri, is the students still have difficulties in writing. The difficulties are to develop ideas, to express the ideas into good sentences, and arrange the sentences into a text. The fact show that they do not know how to start writing as they have no idea about the topic that they have to develop. Another problem is that they have limited vocabulary to express the idea into sentence. Those problems are caused by improper learning process of writing. The teacher only assigned the students to write a text soon after they study reading. The teacher never gives the students experience the steps of creating text, such as outlining, drafting, and revising. Actually, the teacher can choose an interesting teaching media to help them developing ideas. One of the media is picture series which can help them to develop ideas to write narrative text. Therefore, this article discusses how to utilize picture series to teach writing for senior high school students. The objectives are to share ideas to English teacher candidates how to utilize modern picture as teaching media. The discussion covers teaching writing, teaching media, picture series, and the steps in teaching writing using picture series.
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