The Advantages of Using Pictures in Teaching Writing

Abstract

Writing skill is used as an alternative skill to develop students’ ideas. Teaching writing by using pictures has many advantages such as (1) the students became more motivated to learn (2) the students could get better ideas to write (3) the students could be better to understand several basic techniques of writing and (4) the teachers became more motivated to make innovations in teaching writing and (5) the teaching – learning became more effective.