Using Storytelling Technique to Improve Speaking Skills of the Students of MTs Al-Ghozali Panjerejo

Keyword: Story Telling, Speaking Skills. One of the techniques used in teaching speaking is storytelling. Storytelling is an activity that enables the students to understand the story and able to tell the story with their own language development. When the writer conducted preliminary study in MTs Al-Ghozali Panjer, there were many students who got problem in speaking. Most of them were difficult to speak because they are afraid of making mistakes and have less confidence. It came from their vocabularies that are still low. From this statement, the writer believes that storytelling can make students active. In this technique, the students are given a printed story and asked to tell it in front of the class by their own words. The formulation of the problems is “How can storytelling technique to improve speaking skills of the students of MTs Al-Ghozali Panjer?”. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find out how storytelling technique improves speaking skills of the students of MTs Al-Ghozali Panjer. Research method applied in this study is collaborative classroom action research with the setting of this study is at MTs Al-Ghozali Panjer and the subjects of this study are the students of the second year of Mts Al-Ghozali Panjerejo in the academic year of 2011/ 2012. Meanwhile, the research instruments are observation sheet, list of students’ names, questionnaire sheet, and test. The result of data analysis shows that the speaking skills of the students improves after being taught by storytelling technique. The students were more imaginative and feel free to show their understanding about the story. It made they motivate to learn and they could improve their speaking skills. The score of mean of the students before implementing of storytelling was 65, 37. And the score of mean of the students after implementing storytelling was 75, 9. It can be concluded that there was an improvement in speaking skills of the students of MTs Al-Ghozali Panjer. The result of questionnaire shows that most of the students are quite interested in implementation of storytelling technique. Those mean that storytelling technique is effective to improve speaking skills of the students of MTs Al-Ghozali Panjer