Storytelling Technique to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill
Khorashadyzadeh (2014: 12) states that speaking needs not only the learners’ understanding about the way to produce the linguistic competence such as grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary but also comprehension about sociolinguistic competence such as when, why , and how to speak. Bahadorfar and Omidvar (2015: 9) say that speaking skills can be categorized as good speaking skill when the listener can understand the words produced by the speaker Additionally, Tahir (2015: 174) says that somebody is considered successful in learning a foreign language when he or she has the ability to speak it. As a language skill, speaking is sometimes underrated or, in other word, taken for granted. According to Richard, there are two main functions of speaking. The first is interactional function of speaking which serves to establish and maintain social relations, and the second is transactional function, in which focus on the exchange of information. In addition, there is a relation between speaking skill with storytelling technique.
Storytelling technique will force or stimulate students to perform their speaking skill. So, it means that storytelling can encourage the students use the fucntion of speaking. Storytelling will stimulate the learners to do imitate speaking, intensive speaking as the preparation before they perform the storytelling. Then, the learners will be motivated to response the story as the audience. Also, storytelling will give many good impacts for the learners’ speaking skills, because storytelling makes the learners comprehend how to speak with the good gesture and intonation. It is useful for the learners to continue to the extensive speaking.
According to Ellis and Brewster, storytelling technique can motivate students to develop positive attitudes towards the foreign language and language learning. In every story, there will be a moral message can be taken, whether it is negative or positive. If it is negative, teacher must tell the students not to copy, but if it is positive, teacher must tell the students to do so. Moreover, through storytelling students will be taught listening, good oral language, plot, sequencing, characterization. Also, the importance of storytelling is about visualization, so storytelling mentally stimulates students as they naturally begin to imagine and make sense of the story while they listen.
Storytelling can increase students’ ability to share social experience. Storytelling is not only enjoyable, but can help build up students’ confidence and encourage social and emotional development. Oral storytelling allows students to show their communication skill. It results in the use of paralinguistict features (gestures, facial expression) as well as linguistic features (use tense, linking devices, clarification of ambiguity). Moreover, there are some objectives of storytelling in teaching English skill; (a) to enhance students’ confidence in speaking skill (b) to develop problem solving (c) to teach narrative structure and practice description (d) to improve pronunciation and intonation (e) to encourage interaction and share culture.
Thus, storytelling technique is an effective strategy that incorporation the aesthetic ways of knowing into instruction. Also, storytelling has one benefit in enhancing the arts of education of English and surely motivate students to connect with their learning process. From those aims of storytelling, it can be concluded that storytelling gives many benefits besides improving speaking skills. Other skills that can be improve through storytelling, such as students’ positive attitudes towards the foreign language and language learning, listening, good oral language, plot, sequencing, characterization, students’ ability to share social experience and linguistic features.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, moreover, second, so, then, thus, well, while, in addition, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 7.85571142285 216% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 24.0 10.4138276553 230% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 41.998997996 150% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 8.3376753507 336% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3283.0 1615.20841683 203% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 558.0 315.596192385 177% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.8835125448 5.12529762239 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.20363070211 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.42607274716 2.80592935109 122% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 176.041082164 157% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496415770609 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1004.4 506.74238477 198% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 16.0721442886 162% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.6436385902 49.4020404114 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.269230769 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4615384615 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23076923077 7.06120827912 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.01903807615 179% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 8.67935871743 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.514867011073 0.244688304435 210% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143720344828 0.084324248473 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105632128939 0.0667982634062 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.307230913533 0.151304729494 203% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0746070320625 0.056905535591 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.0946893788 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.82 12.4159519038 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 152.0 78.4519038076 194% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 22.0 9.78957915832 225% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.7795591182 158% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.33 Out of 6
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