THE USE OF PICTURES SERIES BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM IN TEACHING WRITING

Abstract

 This research was find out whether the use of pictures series based on local
wisdom can improve students' developing of ideas in writing narrative texts at one of
public junior high school in central java.
This method used in this research was a Classroom Action Research. The
research was conducted in two cycles in April 2022/2023 academic year. The research
was the 32 students at one of public junior high school in central java in 2022/2023
academic year. In collecting the data, the researcher used test and non-test such as
observation, interview, and documentation. To analysis data, the researcher used
qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The qualitative data analysis method that was
used proposed by Miles and Huberman analysis that consisted of data collection, data
reduction, data display, and conclusion. To analyze the quantitative data, the researcher
used mean score of the test.
The result of the research show that pictures series based on local wisdom can
improve the students’ developing of ideas in writing narrative texts. The improvement
of the students’ writing skill can be seen from the students writing achievement. The
result of mean score for pre-test was 55, in post-test 1, it was 64, and in post-test 2, it
was 75. It can be concluded that pictures series based on local wisdom can improve the
students’ writing skill especially in developing idea the sequence of stories in writing
narrative text.
Keywords: Writing Skill, Pictures Series Media, Classroom Action Research