Fitri Orlince Siburian (2172121014)

Juan Andarson Siahaan (2172121017)

Karel Wahyu Christop Simanjuntak (2173121035)

Title : Improving Students’ Achievement In Pronounciation Through Paired

Storytelling Technique For Class Xi At Sma N 8 Medan

A. Background

The National Education Department of Indonesia makes English as one of

primary subjects from junior high school up to the university level. According to

curriculum of senior high school, the first year students are expected to speak english

actively. But in fact, just few students are fulfilling the curriculum standards.

In the process of learning speaking, students find that speaking is difficult to

practice. When the teacher asks students top say something about their opinion, most

of stuidents feel unconfident to express it. They are ashamed to make a mistake in

speaking english languange. This statement is mentioned by Picollo (2010) on his

article “Teaching Speaking to English Second Languange Students” that one speaking

problem faced by the student occurred because they worried about making mistakes,

receiving critic or losing face in front of the rest of the class.

In terms of speaking, teachers should also be concerned about the micro skills.

One of the micro skills is pronounciation. As the fact, pronounciation can be a

problem or issue for the students’ speaking skill. According to Richard Nordquist

(2019) mispronounciation is the act or habit of pronouncing a word in a way that is

regarded as nonstandard, unconventional, or faulthy. Mispronounciation can lead to

miscommunication, misunderstanding and misperception aong participant of

communication.
 Lie (1994) in her article “Paired Storytelling : An Integrated Approach For

Billingual And English As A Second Languange Student” describes that the technique

provides opportunities for one-to-one interaction among students around school tasks

and gives them opportunity to use the target languange communicatively. By applying

paired story telling, students was encourage to speak in front of the class and the

nervous that they fill was decreased. Students were also motivated to work

cooperatively and their communicating ability was increased. So, the writer is

interested to use paired storrytelling in this research. This technique include some

procedures that would applied in the classroom. Firstly, the material or text is divided

into two parts. After brainstorming, the students are assigned to work in pair and each

of the member of the group will get different part of the text. After reading the

material, students find and write the keywords based on the text they get and change

over the keywords to their paired partner. Finally, student compose the complete

material, read the result and discuss it.

This research is conducted to prove that paired storytelling can improve

students’ achievement in pronounciation.