Improvement in Students'Speaking Proficiency by Using Cooperative Storytelling Strategy-A Study

Education

Speaking is the first way to communicate with others in the social community. Furthermore, the success in learning a language at first can be seen from the ability of the learner’s speaking. However, it is difficult for the second language learners to speak the foreign language, especially English. There are a lot of reasons why they face difficulties in speaking, such as lack of ideas to tell, lack of vocabularies to express the ideas, lack of the exposure to speak, and lack of the interesting teaching method or technique that can motivate them to speak. Thus, this research implements Cooperative Storytelling Strategy to Improve Speaking proficiency of the students of grade IX and X in Matoshri Urdu High School, Alamgirl, Ahmednagar. This research is a collaborative classroom action research whose main purpose is to know whether or not storytelling strategy can improve the students’ speaking skill. Meanwhile, the specific purpose consists of describing: (1) To implement storytelling strategy in IX and X grade students at our School to improve their speaking skill. (2)To enhance their confidence in speaking skill and create fluency in speaking. The data of this research is collect from the observations done by Storytelling contest and Speaking test. The result shows that there is an improvement in students’ speaking proficiency after the implementation of storytelling strategy. The speaking test result in cycle two explains that the students’ speaking aspects get good progress. Storytelling improves their comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Thus, it can be said that storytelling strategy can improve students’ speaking skill.

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