The Effect of Retelling Story Through Instagram App on Students’ Speaking Skills

Abstract

This study aimed to examine whether there was or not any significant effect retelling story through Instagram App on students’ speaking skills. The researcher tried to present Instagram as a media to teach retelling story. This research was used a Quasi-Experimental design. The samples of this research were the tenth-grade students of SMA N 1 Raha. The samples of the subjects were 48 students of tenth grade students. The data of this research were collected by giving pre-test and post-test to students in the form of oral test. In this research, there were two different classes, namely experimental and control class. The experimental class was given a treatment retelling story through Instagram while the control class was taught conventional. Independent sample t-test was used to analyze the data. The result showed that the students’ speaking skills in experimental class especially fluency improved than before using retelling story through Instagram App. The students mean score in experimental class was 59.38, and mean score in control class was 45.21. Furthermore, the value of sig (2-tailed) was 0.003, while the significance α value was 0.05 (0.003 < 0.05). It meant that H₁ was accepted or there was a significant effect of retelling story through Instagram App on students’ speaking skills.