The Influence of Retelling Story Technique in Improving Students Speaking Skill by Using Picture Series
Abstract
Berbicara merupakan aktivitas yang dilakukan oleh manusia untuk berkomunikasi dan berinteraksi dengan orang lain. Siswa-siswi diharapkan agar mampu untuk mengekspresikan, berkomunikasi, dan memberikan informasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan yang signifikan yang statistic dalam kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah penerapan dari teknik retelling story menggunakan rangkaian gambar. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Sampel penelitian ini adalah 30 siswa tingkat pertama SMAN 3 Bandar Lampung. Pre-tes dan pos-tes berbicara telah dilakukan untuk mengumpulkan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa adanya peningkatan yang signifikan secara statistik dalam kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah penerapan teknik retelling story menggunakan rangkaian gambar dangan tingkat signifikan 0.05. Ini menunjukan bahwa teknik retelling story menggunakan rangkaian gambar dapat membantu siswa menigkatkan kemampuan berbicara mereka.
Speaking is an activity conducted by people to communicate and interact with other people in appropriate and correct situations. The students are expected to be able to express, communicate, and give information. This study, therefore, was aimed at finding out whether there was a statistically significant improvement of students speaking skill after the implementation of retelling story technique by using picture series. This research was a quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 30 students of the first year of SMAN 3 Bandar Lampung. Speaking tests in the forms of the pre-test and the post-test were done to collect the data. The results showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students speaking skill after the implementation of retelling story technique by using picture series with the significant level 0.05. This indicates that retelling story technique by using picture series helps students improve their speaking skill.
Keywords: implementation, speaking, retelling story technique.
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