The Application of Digital Storytelling in Teaching Speaking at The Students of State Senior High School No 1 Pelepat Kabupaten Bungo

dr. tri wintolo apoko, m.pd; hamzah puadi ilyas, ph.d;

There are there objectives of this study. First, this study aims to explore the application of digital storytelling in teaching speaking. Second, this study aims to explore the benefits of digital storytelling in contributing to speaking class. Third, this study aims to explore the participants‟ perception related to the application of digital storytelling in teaching speaking at the students of state senior high school no 1 Pelepat Kabupaten Bungo. The method used in this study is qualitative. The data collection technique in this study was observation, interview, and audiovisual material. The interview was done for one English teacher and six students (males and females) of twenty-four students of eleventh grade social 1. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling. The data collected in this study was analyzed qualitatively by using triangulation. This study was conducted from June to November 2016. The first finding of this study related to the application of digital storytelling in teaching speaking. Digital storytelling use in teaching speaking was as in the following procedures: writing the story, recording the story with a good pronunciation and intonation, collecting the pictures that related to the story, combining both the story-recorded and relevant images, and the last step was presenting and evaluating the produced-digital storytelling. The second findings indicated the application of digital storytelling had some benefits such as it contributed to practice and improve students‟ speaking skill, provided students to be familiar with the pronunciations of English language, increased self-confidence in communications with their friends in the classroom, and evaluated or assessed students‟ improvement in speaking skill, especially in the step of recording and presentation. The last finding of this study showed that the use of digital storytelling in teaching speaking provided participants to have positive and negative perception; for example, digital storytelling allowed students to have motivation in learning. It was easy, interesting, and enjoyable media, while for negative perceptions related to difficulties in editing, limited time, and lack of related images.