This research aims to improve students’ writing skills using story map. In this case, the students were required to compose a narrative text with story mapping. A quasi-experimental design was applied in this research using a quantitative method. The students were classified into two groups, namely; control and experimental group. The instrument of this research was a written test. The number of students’ from SMPN 18 Central Jakarta that became sample was 70 students which consisted of two classes. Data were collected through written form of pre-test and post-test. The results of the study show that the students from the experimental group obtained positive results by utilizing story mapping as a technique to improve their writing skills. Meanwhile, the students from control group also achieved some improvement even though without using story mapping. However, these improvements can be seen significantly
in experimental group due to the treatment process. It is recommended for teachers who faced difficulty during teaching writing narrative text to use story map as a tool to help students to improvise their writing skills. |