Using Picture Series as Media to Improve Writing Skill of Procedure Text to the Nursing Students of STIKes Patria Husada Blitar
English become the most important things in facing the issue of Asean Economic Community(AEC) especially in the health sector since English is one of the international language use in asean.So, preparing medical employees with English become a great issue to be solved. This study was intendedto apply picture Series as the media to improve students writing skill. The research design usedwas collaborative Classroom Action Research. The collaboration was done with three English teachersin STIKes Patria Husada Blitar. This Classroom Action Research was implemented in one cycle onlywhich involved four stages namely planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The researchergained the data in the form of students’ involvement during teaching learning activity and the writingproduct. To get those data, the researcher used several instruments; those were students writing productand field notes. The finding of this study showed that by using picture series as the media, the studentscould write procedure text much better than they were taught using traditional grammar translationmethod. In terms of the students’ individual writing product, in preliminary study, the number of studentswho passed the minimum passing grade (64) was only 2 students (9.1%). On the other hand, in Cycle 1,all of the 22 students (100%) could pass the minimum passing grade (64). The improvement of students’writing skill was due to the use of picture series as the media in teaching writing which consisted ofseveral activities for the students so that they were enthusiastic in joining the class. In addition, it wassuggested for the lecturers and/ or teacher to apply and modify this technique in their classes.