Improving students’ writing ability through pictures at seventh grade of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan.

Most of students can not write English well. This caused by students’ internal and external factors. Students don’t have desire to write English, students don’t have interest in writing English, and English teachers don’t have appropriate method and used media. To solve the problem, the writer conducted classroom action research, by implementing picture sequence description. The writer applied two cycles in this research. Each cycle consist of three meetings. The participant of this study was one class consisted of 39 students. Writing test is the instrument of collecting the data. The research result saw the progressive mean of the students. In pretest meeting was 38.46, for first cycle was50.51 and in the second cycle was 77.94. So, the mean in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. The data from the result of the test indicated that the students got improvement. It indicated that the application of picture sequence description improve students writing ability. In conclusion, picture sequence description could improve students’ writing ability at SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Hopefully, the research result could be positive input for other researchers and teachers to conduct further research, particularly in writing issue