DEVELOPING DIGITAL PICTURE SERIES AS A MEDIA FOR TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT FOR GRADE X STUDENTS OF SMK NEGERI 1 PATUMBAK

Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop teaching media in Writing Narrative Text for Grade X
Students of SMK Negeri 1 Patumbak. This study was conducted by using Research and
Development (R&D) design from Borg, Gall and Gall (2003) through six phases; gathering
information and data, analyzing the data, media design, validating to experts, revision, and
final product. The subjects of the study were an English teacher and 30 Grade X Students of
SMK Negeri 1 Patumbak. The data were gathered by administering interview to the English
teacher and questionnaire distributed to 30 respondents to get the students’ needs. The result
of interview and questionnaire prove that the students need teaching media which can
motivate the students in learning writing narrative text. The product has been validated by the
experts by using validation sheets with the score 87% to linguistics aspects, 83% to process
aspects, 80% to product and content aspects and 83% to layout aspects. The final score of the
four aspects is 73% from expert 1 and 93% from expert 2 which are range of 83%. The media
has been developed in accordance to the students needs.