A Study Of Students Speaking Ability Through Retelling Story Of The First Year Students At SMAN 1 Rambah Academic Year 2020/2021

Speaking ability in this era of being necessary to be mastered in order to help people to communicate with all people around the world. Further, retelling story being one of technique to improve or to only check the speaking ability of the students. The main purpose of this research was to find out speaking ability level of SMAN 1 Rambah students through retelling story technique. The design of this research was qualitative research. The research was conducted at SMAN 1 Rambah and the subject of this research was the first year students, X IPA & X IPS class. The number of participants is 20 students. The qualitative data were gained by conducting a test of speaking ability by using a recount text as the test script. By seeing the fact that all the students still learning from home because of covid19 pandemic, the researcher the test was held by online learning. Based on the result of this research, there are variations in students speaking ability level. There are 5% students got excellent score in test, and 75% students got fair to good score. Further, only 20% of students got low score in the test and this result showed that majority of the student could reach the standard that set by the teacher in speaking ability, specifically in retelling story method. By seeing the data above, it can be concluded that retelling story is one of method that can be used to develop and checked the quality of students’ speaking ability. Retelling story method can improve the creativity of the student, because in the process of it they need to think how to retell the story without decreasing the idea of the story itself. Even so, to maximize their speaking ability, it being a necessary for student to improve all of the aspects in speaking, in this case, pronunciation, grammatical, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Keywords: Speaking Ability, Retelling Story, Recount Text