IMPROVING STUDENTS` SPEAKING SKILL BY USING RETELLING STORY THROUGH PANTOMIME AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM TARBIYAH DEPARTMENT STAIN PALOPO

ABSTRACT
Suardi Sahid, 2013. Improving Students` Speaking Skill by Using Retelling Story
Through Pantomime at the Second Semester of English Study Program
Tarbiyah Department STAIN Palopo. Thesis, English Study Program
Educational Department in State Collage for Islamic Studies (STAIN)
Palopo. Supervised by Dr. Masruddin, S.S., M.Hum. And Wahibah, S.Ag.,
M.Hum.
Keyword: Retelling Story, Pantomime, and Speaking skill.
This thesis focuses on the improvement of students` Speaking skill at STAIN
Palopo by retelling story through pantomime. This thesis focused on two research
questions; is pantomime effective to improve the students` speaking at English Study
Program Tarbiyah Department STAIN Palopo? And are the students` interested in
learning speaking through pantomime?
This researcher applied experimental research with pre-test and post-test
design. This research was undertaken at the second semester English Study program
Tarbiyah Department STAIN Palopo. The numbers of population were 120 students
and the researcher took 33 students from class A as samples using purposive
sampling technique. The researcher used questionnaire as instruments of the data
collection.
The result of this research shows that there were significant developments on
students` speaking skill at the second semester English study Program Tarbiyah
Department STAIN Palopo after conducting the treatments by using Retelling Story
through Pantomime. In which the score of ttest (6,23) is bigger than the score of ttable
(2,03). It means that Retelling Story through pantomime gives significant
improvement to the students` speaking skill. In addition, the researcher found almost
all of the students gave positive responds toward retelling story through pantomime in
improving speaking skill.