Purpose Of Journal

Storytelling to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill

PURPOSE

A. what is the author main argument?
B. List and explain the author reason for his/her main argument.

Well, the researcher state in abstract
"This research was a collaborative
classroom action research whose main purpose was to know whether or not
storytelling could improve the students’ speaking skill"

And the reason why the author/researcher state his argument, 
"
the
specific purposes consisted of describing:
(1) the lecturer’s activities,

        (1) the teacher hangs different written stories with colorful papers on the
white board, (2) the teacher asks the students to make groups of five, (3) the
teacher asks every group take a paper from the white board, (4) the teacher asks
them to develop a story in 15 minutes, (5) the teacher asks them to retell their
story based on the group discussion, and (6) the teacher gives award to the group
considered as the best group.

(2) the students’ activities, and

          Since the first meeting of the class, the students joining the class always followed
the lecturer’s instructions. Here are the descriptions of the students’ activities
relating to the storytelling method applied by the lecturer.
1. The students sat in the groups of five
2. The students were paying attention to the reading text in their module while
the lecturer was reading and translating the reading text
3. The students discussed about the content of the reading text by using their
own words in seven minutes
4. The representatives of the groups presented their discussion results in three
minutes
5. The students listened and paid attention to the review given by the lecturer.

(3) the students’ responses when storytelling was applied in the speaking class.

        
          
         The students were little surprised when they were asked to retell the content of the
story in front of the class in the first meeting. It was because in the first semester
they always got the explanation from the lecturer. Next, there was one of the
groups’ representatives who was very nervous when telling the content of the
reading text in front of the class. It made him forget some words to say. Then, he
was replaced by other member. Meanwhile, most of the students were very noisy
in the second meeting because they did not finish making the story of the content
of the reading text. They felt that their time was not enough. Almost all of them
laughed when the lecturer corrected the pronunciations. They found the new
words with their unfamiliar pronunciation in the reading text.