Improving Students' Speaking Skill and Self Confidence Using Retelling of Fifth Grade Students

摘要

This study aims to apply the retelling technique to improve the speaking skill and self confident of fifth grade students. This was a classroom action research study. The research subjects were 37 grade 5 students. The data were collected through observations, tests, documentation, and unstructured interviews. The research instruments consisted of a teacher activity observation sheet, a student activity observation sheet, documents, an interview guide, and learning achievement tests. The results of the study show that the using of retelling technique is capable to improve students' speaking skill and self confident. From the pretest before Cycle I to Cycle II the students' reading skill has improved. Percentage mastery of pre-actionpre-action of pronunciation skills was 45.9% while in the first cycle of 59.5%. In cycle II the final completeness was 75.7%. The results also show that students' confident characters through retelling techniques have improved. Increased visible from the questionnaire from pretest to cycle I of 18.9% and the improvement of students' self-confidence from cycle I to cycle II was 10.8%.