Exploring the Implementation of Story Completion Technique toward Speaking Skill of Eighth Grade Students

Melati, Lovelyna (2025) Exploring the Implementation of Story Completion Technique toward Speaking Skill of Eighth Grade Students. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Speaking Skill play a vital role in fostering students' active engagement in communication, which is essential for language learning as it enables to express their thoughts effectively. However, several studies have found that students often face difficulties in speaking, particularly in aspects such as pronunciation, vocabulary, accuracy, fluency, and grammar. Therefore, the teacher’s role becomes crucial in facilitating every aspect of the teaching and learning process, exactly in speaking. To address these challenges, teaching technique is needed. One such technique is the Story Completion Technique, which an interactive activity that allows students to engage in group-based communication, providing them with opportunities to freely practice and develop their speaking skills.
The reseach question were: 1) What material are use in the implementation of Story Completion Technique to promote students’ Speaking Skill? 2) How is the Story Completion Technique implemented to promote students’ Speaking Skill? This research has two research objectives, namely: 1) To understand the materials used in the implementation Story Completion Technique to promote Students’ Speaking Skill. 2) To understand the implementation of Story Completion Technique to promote Students’ Speaking Skill.
This research used qualitative with phenomenology as research design. This research has been conducted at SMP Negeri 6 Jember, which has been purposively selected as the research location. The researcher chose 34 students of VIII E as the participants of this research. To collect the data the researcher used observation, interview, and document review. In analyzing the data used Miles, Huberman, and Saldana which divided into three primary stages: data condensation, data display, and drawing and verifying conclusions. In this research, the researcher used triangulation as a method to validate the data. The researcher applied triangulation in two ways: source triangulation and technique triangulation.
The result of this research were: 1) The material used in the implementation of the Story Completion Technique to promote students’ speaking skills focuses on recount texts with the topic of personal experiences in the past. It includes language features, the definition and characteristics of recount texts, the use of the past tense as the writing pattern, and the general structure of recount texts. 2) The implementation of the Story Completion Technique to promote students’ speaking skills involves several steps, beginning with the teacher explaining the concept of recount text and the use of the simple past tense. Then, students are given exercises related to the past tense to strengthen their understanding. After that, the teacher divides the students into groups and asks them to sit together. The teacher tells a story to each group in turn, and the students are required to continue the story collaboratively. Following this, each group discusses and creates a recount text based on the story. Each student is also asked to write a short story of about four to five sentences based on their personal experience. Finally, the results of the group discussions are presented in front of the class, allowing students to practice and improve their speaking skills in a supportive environment.

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