THE USE OF STORYTELLING STRATEGY TO INCREASE LISTENING ABILITY OF STATE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KUPANG, INDONESIA

Abstract

Storytelling Strategy is a newly designed strategy to increase the listening ability
of State Secondary School Kupang, Indonesia. The problem of this research is to what
extent storytelling strategy is useful to increase students’ listening ability. The aim of this research is to describe how storytelling strategy is useful to increase students’ lis-
tening ability. The method of this research is classroom action research. This research study conducted in two cycles in tenth grade of SMA N 9 Kupang in the academic year
2011/2012. The result of the research of the first cycle showed that 12.4 % students
whose learning achievements were good and 87.6% students were not good. In the
second cycle, the researcher revised the plans and the impact were there were 94.6 %
students whose learning achievements were good. Based on the results of this research,
the use of storytelling strategy can increase students’ listening ability. It is suggested
that using storytelling strategy in teaching listening motivate students to increase their
listening ability.