Abstract
This research aims to find out how to improve students’ speaking ability by using Story Completion Technique. The writers applied Collaborative Classroom Action Research as the method of research, where there are four steps that must be followed, they are: planning, action, observation and reflection. In this research, the writers only conducted one cycle due to the fact that the result of the test has been successful. There are 30 eighth grader students of SMPN 1 Takengon as the sample of this research. The data were taken from observation and students’ speaking test in pre-test and post-test, then were analyzed quantitatively. The result of the cycle was described qualitatively. From the results of the research, it was found that using Story Completion Technique in speaking lesson was very enjoyable and it encouraged students to speak more fluently. It can be proven from the result of pretest and posttest, which showed that the posttest score is higher than that of the pre-test (2204 for the pretest and 1640 for the posttest). That means the pre-test score is 54.67 and the post-test score is 73.47.
Highlights
Speaking is one of the English skills that must be mastered by English learners.As claimed by Kosdian (2016) in Rifa‟at (2018), “of all four simplex skills speaking seems to be the most important because people who know languages are referred to as „speakers‟ of that language, as if speaking includes all other types know the language.” The English learners‟ fluency sometimes may be the standard of the quality in learning English, as a result speaking becomes a priority to be mastered by the English learners
One of the techniques which are recommended in teaching speaking is story completion technique in narrative text
Based on the cycle that has been applied in this research, it can be concluded that story completion technique is a proper technique in learning speaking
Summary
Speaking is one of the English skills that must be mastered by English learners.As claimed by Kosdian (2016) in Rifa‟at (2018), “of all four simplex skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) speaking seems to be the most important because people who know languages are referred to as „speakers‟ of that language, as if speaking includes all other types know the language.” The English learners‟ fluency sometimes may be the standard of the quality in learning English, as a result speaking becomes a priority to be mastered by the English learners. Speaking is one of the English skills that must be mastered by English learners. The English learners‟ fluency sometimes may be the standard of the quality in learning English, as a result speaking becomes a priority to be mastered by the English learners. To speak fluently is not easy due to the sub-skills that adhered it, for instance: pronunciation and vocabulary. According to Bygate (2009) in Safitri, Rafli & Dewanti (2020), when we speak, we have to know the knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and to produce and adapt them to the circumstances. Ur (2012) as stated in Hukom (2019)
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