The Effectiveness of Using Picture Series in Teaching Writing Narrative Text to the First Year Students at MAN 1 Makassar”

The research findings shows that the first year students at MAN 1 Makassar obtain score on pretest with the mean score 58.60. After giving treatment the students obtain improvement, they gain score with the mean score 78.67 as good classification. The result of the data analysis indicate that picture series is effective on the students writing narrative text after being taught using picture series. It is proved by the result of the statistical analysis of the level significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) 38 indicated t-test values of the students’ writing narrative text (3.293) is higher than ttable value (2.024). The effectiveness of picture series also can be seen from the effectiveness test. Afterwards, the results of the test is 0.47 (R