Improving Students' Listening Skill By Using Storytelling To The Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 5 Nabire

Abstract

The aim of this research is: To improve students' listening skills through story telling, especially for eighth grade students at SMP Negeri 5 Nabire, learning English using storytelling , to identify factors that hinder students in listening, and to analyze the results of English learning activities using story telling at SMP Negeri 5 Nabire. This type of research is qualitative research, which uses interview, observation and documentation data collection techniques. The data sources in this research are English teachers, administrative staff and students. The analysis used is by reducing, presenting, concluding and verifying data. The results of this research are: Planning for English language learning using story telling for students is carried out with an assessment first, from the results of this assessment learning using story telling is adjusted to making lesson plans prepared and selecting learning media , organizing learning carried out by the teacher, namely organizing learning from the opening stage until the closing of the material in the learning process, the implementation of learning is carried out by preparing everything, from searching for story telling that is in sync with the material as well as creating questions, assessing learning outcomes is carried out by providing the material first after that the teacher will give questions to measure students' understanding of the material. that has been given. The overall results based on the data that have been obtained in the process of learning English using storytelling show that the process implemented in the school is effective. These results can be seen from the students' learning scores which are getting better in accordance with the KKM scores