Using picture stories in teaching simple past tense to the sixth grade students at SDN Tlasih

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Ain, Siti Nur Afifah (2010) Using picture stories in teaching simple past tense to the sixth grade students at SDN Tlasih. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Now days, English is taught as a compulsory subject at the secondary level in English also introduced in the elementary school as a local subject. There fore, teasher should master English and know how to teach it to the children. Th.ere are many varies things that teacher can do or use to teach English. On of them is using picture stories. This study is intended to lmow how picture stories are used to teach English which emphasizes on simple past tense. This study is also conducted to know the students responses on using picture_ stories and the advantages of using picture stories in teaching simple past tense lo the sixth grade students. The study is conducted by using descriptive method. In this case, the study uses qualitative approach since it focuses on the process of using picture stories. The subject are the sixth grade students at SDN Tlasih for about 28 students. The using pi cture stories was measured by using observation checklist. The purpose is to find out how the picture stories are used in teaching simple past tense. Mean while, the students responses were measured through observation. The score of daily assessments and formative assessment were used to find out the advantages of using picture stories in teaching simple past tense. The result of the analysis showed that picture stories encouraged students to study English because there were plenty of pictures described the text. There fore, they helped the students to interpret and analyze the content of the meaning of the vocabularies: They- also gave the students clues about the sequence events. From the students responses, we could conclude that students were pleased to be given picture stories. The picture stories helped the students in analyzing the both the content and simple past tense. They guided the students could share their ideas freely when the teaching learning occurred. There were many advantages the students could get from using picture stories. Picture stories could motivate the students to study simple past tense. They helped the students to understand the text and vocabularies in dun way. .They also helped students retain meaning by only looking at the object and persons or what they were doing in the picture stories. Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that picture stories were very useful in teaching simple past tense to the. sixth grade students at SDN. It could be presented in various kinds of activities and ways. The most important things is it could help students to acquire new language and use it in the real situation.