INTRODUCTION
Tell
me a fact and I learn. Tell me the truth and I will believe. But tell me a
story and it will live in my heart forever. “An indian proverb”. This first
chapter present some aspects underlying the topic of the research. It consist
of the beckground of the research, the problem of the research, objective of
the research, significances of the research, area of the research, and
operational definition of the term.
Background of the
research
Listening is one of the
subject studied in the field of language arts and in the discipline of
conversation analysis. It is also one of
the skill of english language that must be mastered by all of students who are learning
english at their school. Willis (1981:134) lists a series of micro skill of
listening which she calls enabling skill. They are :
·
Predictingwhat people are going to talk
about
·
Guessing at unknown words or phrases
without panic
·
Using one’s own knowledge of the subjecj
to help one understand
·
Identifying relevant points
(note-taking, summerizing)
·
Retaining relevant points and rejecting
irrelevant information
·
Recognizing discourse markers. E.g well
·
Understanding different intonation
patterns and uses of stress which give clues to the meaning and social setting
According
to Bulletin (1952), listening is one of the fundamental language skills. It’s a
medium through which children, young people and adults gain a large portion of
their education—their information, their understanding of the world and of
human affairs, their ideals, sense of vaues, and their appreciation. In this
day of mass communication (much of it oral), it is of vital importance that our
pupils be taught to llisten effectively and critically, he says.
In
this research, researcher use a simple technique to improve the students’
listening skill through storytelling.
Anderson & Lynch (1995:48) stated
that storie are better understandable and more accurately recalled than if
anybody likes to describe out of chronological sequences. And the researcher
try to teach the students listening comprehension through storytelling
technique in the research which is tittled by “ The effectiveness of using
storytelling technique in improving the 11th grade listening comprehension in
the SMP 1 Banyuwangi.
Listening
comprehension development is a challenge that demands both of teacher and
students attention because of the official role that listening plays in
communication ( Duzzer 1997:4). Based on Phillips (2000:6) pointed out that
storytelling technique has been forgotten in many educational environment and
it has many an essential role in the education, especially for young learners
that may inspire their imagination.
Based
on the research in interviewing the English teachers in SMPN 1 Banyuwangi that
the students have two meeting in a week and the teacher said that it is limited
time to enhance the students skill because still there are three skills that
should be mastering by the students. Student difficulties appear because they
feel hard to reach what the native says, it is caused by student is not
commonly listen the native speaker in often. The difficulties are also
identified that student difficult to find the key word from a passage which
they have been heard. So, the teacher confused to look for the best and fast
way in improving students’ listening skill. In the interview, the teacher said
that enhance the students’ listening skill is more difficult than teach another
skill because of the media and also technique that is still not found yet. Because
of this reason, the researcher made a new technique to help the teacher teach
students’ listening.
Overcoming
the students’ problem in the listening comprehension, the teachers’ role is
very important in the teaching and learning process, especially in choosing the
best teaching technique. So, inn this research, the researcher is using story
telling technique to improve the students’ listening skill.
Based
on the explanation above, the researcher suggest that the problems of the grade
11’ students listening skill can be solved by using story telling technique at
SMP N 1 Banyuwangi in the 2014-2015 academic year
