AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL BY RETELLING STORIES OF SMK KESEHATAN WIDYA TANJUNGPINANG

Abstract

This study is aimed to analysis of students’ speaking skill by retelling stories of SMK Kesehatan Widya TanjungPinang. The method used in this research is qualitative. The instrument in this data collection is recording of students’ speaking voice or audio. The subjects of this study were tenth grade students’ of pharmacy. The result of this research is to show students’ speaking skill in each aspect. To find out the students’ speaking skill, the researcher used a rubric adapted from Brown and classified the category of students’ speaking skill based on Vagias and Wade, then the researcher  calculate the total score of students’ based on Best and Kahn. For students’ speaking skill in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and fluency had fair category, meanwhile in comprehension had good category. Overall, the average score of students’ speaking skill at tenth grade of SMK Kesehatan Widya TanjungPinang was 2.1 which were categorized as fair.