RETELLING SHORT STORY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS"™ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

Abstract

This study is aimed to investigate whether or not the use of retelling short story improves the students"™ speaking skill and to find out the effect size of the improvement of students"™ speaking skill after being taught using retelling short story of the tenth grade students of SMA Santun Untan Pontianak. The form of this research is pre-experimental study with one group pre-test post-test design. The population of this research is the tenth grade students of SMA Santun Untan Pontianak, while the sample is class X B that consists of 24 students. The research findings show that the mean score of pre-test is 56,04 while the mean score of post-test is 61,46. It shows that retelling short story improves the students"™ speaking skill.The result of the research shows that t-test is higher than t-critical the value is 8,34>2.069 it means that  the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It can be concluded that there is a highly significant effect of retelling short story to improve students"™ speaking skill on the tenth grade students of SMA Santun Untan Pontianak.

Keywords: Retelling Short Story, Speaking Skill