MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS BAHASA INGGRIS NARRATIVE TEXT DENGAN MEDIA GAMBAR BERSERI PADA SISWA KELAS X IB2 SMA NEGERI 2 MAUMERE

Abstract

In the classroom, students often complain and say it is difficult if the teacher give them
the task to write in English. The students would say they could not do it even when they
haven’t begun yet. They do not have self-confident, feeling afraid of doing wrong, do not
know what to write and how to get started. For those reasons the teacher conduct Class
Action Research using images Pinocchio and Cinderella as a medium of teaching on learning
to write Narrative Text. The results showed that the use of images media is able to increase
the students’ ability to write narrative text in English class X IB2 at SMA Negeri 2 Maumere.
For increasing the students’ excitement in gaining an idea of writing a story narrative, the
authors advise teachers to use images in the form of picture books, comic books, or comic
strips, newspaper story as a source of inspiration.