The effectiveness of storytelling technique to enhance speaking skill for junior high school level

Numerous studies explained storytelling technique to enhance writing, reading even listening skills, those studies were relate with the text usually storytelling are tended to, such as; narrative text or recount text. This study is focused on finding the significant differences before and after the students were taught by storytelling technique for junior high school level, and the focus of the text is descriptive text. The researcher’s participants here were the 7th grade students from MTs Fatahillah Bringin in the academic year 2021/2022. Quantitative research with the quasi-experimental design is the research design in this study. The data were collected in two ways, observation, and interview. The data analysis in this study includes the statistical data from spss and the statistical calculation. The data showed that the pre-test score for the experimental class, is 60.166666667, and for the control class it got 61.566666667. While, the mean score from post-test for the experimental class is 70.3 and for the control class is 64.6. The statistical analysis showed that the gained score from both classes, which the experimental class maximum score reaching 23 and the control class, 14. Also for the minimum score of the experimental class was -9 and the control class was -14. The average score from experimental class was 10.166666667 and the average of the control class was 3.1. And the data from spss showed that the Asymp.Sig. (2-tailed) is 0,001 it smaller than 0,05 and the hypothesis was accepted. Besides those calculation, the other prove that students’ speaking skill were improved is by observing their performance on post-test, they well prepared in preparing their performance, start from learning how to pronounce the word, how to be a confident person in class, and to memorize the meaning from vocabulary of their own descriptive text. Storytelling motivates students to do all good things in learning english especially for speaking. In conclusion, storytelling technique is significance effective to enhance students speaking skills for junior high school level