Abstract:
Learning English is quite challenging for some Indonesians, especially to learn speaking skill. Previous research on speaking ability has been conducted, but few researchers examined the effect of speaking in the scope of Islamic senior high school. To fill the gaps in the literature, this research aims to find out how influential teaching speaking through storytelling in Islamic senior high schools. The problems of this study focused whether or not teaching storytelling has an effect on students’ speaking ability and to find out any difference for those who have been taught using storytelling and those who have been not. The research design used in this research was quasi-experimental design with Non-Equivalence Control Group Design form. The sample of this study was 69 tenth grade students of MAN 2 Banjarmasin, which were divided into control and experimental group. To collect the data, each group was assigned pre-test and post-test. Based on the results of the Descriptive Statistical Data Analysis, it is explained that there was an effect of learning English by using storytelling on the speaking ability of class X students of MAN 2 Banjarmasin. This is shown by the average value of students from 65.539 to 79.656. The results of the Mann Whitney test analysis on the post-test value of the control and experimental groups obtained p-value < 0.05. By looking at the average difference on the post test scores, it can be said that the teaching speaking through storytelling method is more effective for improving students' speaking ability.
