Background - Improving listening skill by using story telling in 11th grade

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