THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STORY-TELLING ACTIVITY IN ENGLISH SUBJECT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS PGRI UNIVERSITY OF YOGYAKARTA

The effort of the institution in improving students’ competency especially in teaching students of elementary schools, is giving English lesson to the students. Students have to take English lesson as their credit in semester 1. The freshmen are supposed to have good competencies in whole learning aspects of language comprehension. They are given chance to increase their language competencies especially in reading, writing, listening and speaking. The teaching and learning of English to students also aims at preparing students to achieve good performance of delivering material or lesson to students. It must be followed by giving students experience in teaching children using English. One activity which is successfully applied to invite students to become involved in learning process is story telling activity. This study is held to describe students of Elementary School Teacher Training Study Program in performing story telling activity. The students were given chance to demonstrate story telling by using English language. There were four meetings of performance and each meeting consisted of 7 to 10 students. The result of the study shows that students of Elementary School Teacher Study Program do some steps for preparing the story telling activity. The steps are looking for title and theme of the story, understanding the content and its messages, making the media, practicing telling the story, memorizing and focusing on mental preparation. Based on the study, the functions of story telling activity are improving students’ self confidence, comprehending English language, improving pronunciation, attracting children’s attention, increasing vocabulary, improving English communication, training learner’s mental and physical aspects, enhancing children to communicate in English language, and motivating learner’s to study English