Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Through Retelling
Technique (A Classroom Action Research to the
Eight Grade Students of MTs Al-Mustaqim I
Kecamatan Sungai Raya Kabupaten Kubu Raya
in Academic Year 2016/2017)The research was conducted in order to investigated how the
improvement of students’ speaking skill after being taught through the
implementation of retelling technique to the eighth grade students of MTs Al-Mustaqim 1 Sungai in academic year 2015/2016.
The form of this research is Classroom Action Research (CAR).The
subject of this research is 40 students of VIII C class. Techniques of data
collecting used were observation technique and measurement technique. Field
note, observation checklist, and speaking test were used as the tools to collect the
data.
Based on the result of research findings, shown that Retelling technique
can improve students’ speaking skill. Retelling was successfully solved the
students’ problem in speaking skill. It was proven from the improvement of
students’ individual score. The students’ response toward the learning activity
during the implementation of retelling proved that they were interested to the
retelling activity, it shown by the students more active in the speaking activity.
They were also had enriched the vocabulary and known how to arranged it into a
good structure. It shown by the significant increased of the students’ score which
proven the improvement from the first cycle, second cycle and to the third cycle.
It can be concluded that the students like the activity in retelling and the
teacher success in applying retelling technique in teaching speaking skill.
Retelling technique could help the students to speak English with provided the
situation and the idea what to say and made them easier to find the vocabulary.
So, the teacher should consider to use this technique for the same typical of
students’ problem in speaking