Developing Students Speaking Skills Through Storytelling Technique at 11th Grade SMAN 3 ENREKANG = Developing Students Speaking Skills Through Storytelling Technique at 11th Grade SMAN 3 ENREKANG

This research explores the effectiveness of storytelling techniques in improving students speaking abilities. It started with the problems that the students faced, such as lack of vocabulary, lack of the proper motivation to study and practice speaking, and not being confident to talk. Responding to the problem, the appropriate method for improving speaking skills should be how to train memory, pronunciation, and hearing simultaneously, namely Storytelling.
This research had two objectives, first was to describe the effectiveness of Storytelling in improving students' speaking skills. The Second was to explain the Teacher and Students' perceptions of using storytelling techniques to enhance students' speaking skills. The sample in this study were students of class XI MIPA 2. The sample was selected using random sampling. This research was a qualitative research method. The researcher conducted observation, evaluation, and interview activities in this research. The observation was completed in three meetings, two for observation and one session for evaluation and interview. The evaluation meeting showed students' enthusiasm to perform Storytelling was higher than in the first meeting. We can conclude that storytelling techniques was effective in developing students speaking abilities.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Speaking skills, Storytelling