چکیده (انگلیسی):

Having good English speaking is very essential especially for the students because it becomes the
bridge for them to know the world. So improving the English speaking competence is very important for
the Indonesian students where we know Speaking is extremely need to gives the big contribution to
students to perform their communication skill better. Furthermore, the newest curriculum also stated
that English as a language of global science, technology, and business should be taught
communicatively at students of college or university. The students of college or university graduate are
expected to be able to communicate English well. It means that speaking is the primary competence to
develop. However, the students of Pangeran Diponegoro Islamic College (STAI) of Nganjuk, East
Java, Indonesia don’t have good competence in speaking. In other words, it can be said that they have
low competence in English speaking. Realizing the condition, the researcher thinks an appropriate way
to improve the students’English speaking competence using storytelling. we use stories which rely so
much on words, offer a major and constant source of language experience for students. Stories are
motivating, rich in language experience and inexpensive. Finally, the research result stated that When
storytelling were implemented in teaching speaking it could improve the students’ fluency, grammar,
pronunciation, vocabulary, and content. The strengness of speaking using storytelling areThe students
feel that the teacher is giving them something very personal, It is often easier to understand a story
being told than one which is read aloud because, storytelling give motivation, meaning, fluency,
language awareness, and stimulus for the students speaking. Despite having the strongness, storytelling
also has weaknesses when it is applied in teaching language. The weaknesses are the teacher/lecturer
must learn the story well enough to tell it without the book because he/she might some mistake in
English and sometime the class need more time.