Improving students' speaking skill through storytelling at the tenth grade of SMA Al-Kautsar Bandarlampung

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to find out whether there is an improvement of the students’ skill in speaking English after being taught of storytelling technique and to find out the students’ perception toward the implementation of storytelling technique. The approach of the research was quantitative. The subjects were 30 students of class X IPS 2 at SMA Al-Kautsar Bandar Lampung in 2019/2020 academic year. The students’ speaking scores were compared between the pre-test and the post-test by using Paired Sample T-test with the significant level 0,000. The students’ perception toward the implementation of storytelling technique was 0.754. The result of the research showed that there was an improvement of the students’ speaking skill from the pre-test (56.73) to the post-test (68.25). Furthermore, the result of questionnaires showed that most students gave positive perception toward the implementation of  storytelling technique in improving students’ speaking skill. This suggests that storytelling technique can be used as a strategy to improve the students’ speaking skill.

Keywords: storytelling technique, speaking skill, students’ perception.