Developing Digital Picture Series as a Media for Teaching Writing Narrative Text for Grade X Students of SMK Negeri 1 Patumbak

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.