THE USE OF ENGLISH STORY TELLING IN DEVELOVING STUDENTS SPEAKING ABILITY

Abstract

This research deals with using story telling in developing students speaking ability. The aims of this research is: “To find out whether the students achievements of SMP Nurul Hasanah class in learning speaking increase after application of story telling in class”. The subject of this research is the second year student of SMP Nurul Hasanah Medan in 2019-2020 Academic Years with total number 30 students. The method used in this research Classroom Action Research(CAR), which consists of planning, action, observation, reflection. The instruments used to obtained primary data and the secondary data were speaking test, the students observation sheets, and questionnaire of the respondent. To analyze the students score used the formula of percentage of class(%). The students observation sheets were analyzed using formula of percentage of mean score. The data presented in this study is qualitative data which are obtained from pre-cycle, the implementation, and the reflection of the action. From the result of the research, in the first cycle, the amount of the students who passed the test was improve. There were 73,33% of the students who passed the test. However, it cannot indicate the percentage of success. The weakness of the cycle one was planned to overcome in the second cycle. In the second cycle, it was found through story telling increase the students achievements in speaking. The result of study in the second cycle, there were 90% students who passed the test. It was greater the level of criteria of success. It can be concluded that using story telling in the class developing students speaking ability at SMP Nurul Hasanah Medan, with the other words, the hypothesis (Ha) which purposes before is accepted.