Enhancing Studnets' Speaking Skill by Using Students' Story Telling at Fourth Grade Students of Unity Primary School in First School Year of 2018/2019

moh. balya ali sya'ban, m.pd; prof.dr.h. gunawan suryoputro, m.hum; dr. santi chairani djonhar, ma;

This Research aimed to know whether students’ speaking skill could be enhanced by using Students’ storytelling technique at the fourth grade primary Unity School, Bekasi. In addition, this research also aimed to describe how the implementation of storytelling technique in enhancing P4C students’ speaking skill.
This research is classified as the Classroom Action Research (CAR) method used to solve the problem of students’ speaking skill.Based on the result of a pre-observation conducted at fourth grade, it was found that the speaking skill of the students were still low and unsatisfactory. The total number of students in P4C class is 20. In this classroom research, the researcher implements the Kemmis and McTaggart Action Research Model; which consist of four phases. Those are planning, action, observation and reflection. Meanwhile, the data is taken fromthe interview to teacher and students, observation, field notes, and test (Pre-test and post-test). Therefore, this research included into qualitative descriptive research.
The finding of this research are: (1) the student’s story telling has developed clearly from one cycle to another in enhancing students speaking skill by using Classroom Action Research (CAR) (2) There is significant enhancement clearly in student’s speaking skill by using story telling related to the result of the speaking (storytelling) test from cycle I until cycle III according to the data that the researcher has found. The mean score in cycle III was succeed at 81.6. It could be inferred that the mean score had enhanced 15.4 from the pre-test, 10. 2 from the post-test 1 and 5.59 from the post-test 2. There was also enhancement on percentage of students’ score from pre-test to post-test 3 that was 23.26%. Lastly, the class percentage of students who passed the minimal score or KKM was 85% that there were 17 students who passed the minimal score criteria and 3 students who hadn’t passed the minimal score criteria (KKM).