USING PICTURES TO TELL STORIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING NARRATIVE TEXT TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Sindya Fantika (English Department Faculty of Languages and Arts State University of Padang)
Ratmanida Ratmanida (English Department Faculty of Languages and Arts State University of Padang)

Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 5, No 1 (2016): Serie A

This paper explains about the implementation of “Using Pictures to Tell Stories” which is one of techniques in teaching speaking to improve the ability students’ in telling stories. This techniques use pictures as media that are provided by the teacher and the students make a story map based on the pictures. The purpose is to make the students easy to produce a narrative text by themselves. In this paper, the writer chooses narrative text that is appropriate with technique using pictures to tell stories. By using this technique in teaching narrative text, the students will have self confidence to produce narrative text orally.