Written form is very important
especially in education. For example, all subjects at school are presented in
written form. A written form is more admitted than oral, because the written
from can be preserved. The same thing has been stated by holiday that writing
has important role in human life. Written language is capable to extend and
deliver whatever that cannot be expressed by spoken language.[1]
Writing is most likely to encourage
thinking and learning when students view writing as a process. By recognizing
that writing is a recursive process, and that every writer uses the process in
a different way, students experiences less pressure to get it right the first
time and are more willing to experiment, explore, revise, and edit.
Narrative text is a story being told
to the reader. It is a bit like a recount but is usually a made up story. It
usually has a number of events that take place and a problem that needs to be
solved by the characters. It usually has a crisis in it and then is resolved at
the end. Simon and Schuster stated that narrative essay tell about fiction and
non-fiction, it gives an account of one or more experiences. It tells about
ideas or experiences of the author.[2]
According the statement above, we
can conclude that ideas or more experiences is very important in writing
narrative text. In narrative essay, students will express their ideas. When
they do not have ideas, it will be hard for them to write, because they do not
know what to write.
SMPN 18 Siak is one of the Junior
High Schools in Siak Regency, which teaches English as a compulsory subject.
This school uses School Based Curriculum as learning English guide. English has been
taught twice a week with duration 2x45 minutes per hour based on the Curriculum
.
The basic competences in writing
narrative text for the second year in
this school is responding to the meaning of the functional text, responding to
the meaning and theoretical steps in simple short essay accurately, smoothly
and thanked associated with the environment in the form of narrative and recount
text. With the indicator, the students can write the short narrative text[3]. But in fact, it still far from the target of the
curriculum.
The aim of teaching English especially
in writing narrative text is not achieved successfully yet. Many students still
get difficulties when they are learning writing. Because the students cannot
develop their ideas although they have a lot of vocabulary. It caused the
teacher asks the students to write narrative text by themselves without more
explanation about narrative text. Based on preliminary research at SMPN 18
Siak, the writer found some problems faced by the students in learning English
especially in writing narrative text. The teacher uses conventional strategy. Conventional
strategy is traditional design. it means that the teacher still use the
traditional method. In learning, the teacher more active and the students only
silent or passive. The students only accepted, commonly believed to be true,
but often false. It is make the students are bored in learning English. Some of the students are still confused about
narrative text. Some of the students are not interested in English class, the students
always cheat when they do the test or exercise. Some of students are not
serious during following the English class. When the teacher taught, the
students do not pay attention, have
talk, and joke with the other students.
Some of students are lazy to learn English. It can be itemized into the
following symptoms:
1. Some
of the students get difficulties in
writing narrative text
2. Some
of the students are not interested in English class
3. Some
of the students are not serious during following the English class
4. Some
of the students are lazy to learn English
5. Some
of the students are still confused about narrative text
In
teaching and learning process, The teacher should be creative to use Media in
teaching narrative text. To increase the students’ writing narrative text needs
an appropriate strategy and media to help them as solution for their problems. There is actually a medium that can
help students in writing narrative text, using flowcharts media. According to
Mayer and Diane (1995) flowcharts can help students keep to the topic by
having their ideas in front of them as they are writing. They also help the
students to keep things in the correct sequential order[4].
It means that Flowchart can helping them
as solution for their problem. Based on the above phenomena, the writer is
interested in conducting a research entitled “THE EFFECT OF FLOWCHARTS ON THE STUDENTS’
WRITING ABILITY OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMPN 18 SIAK“.
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