Abstract

Annisaul Azizah. 176311047. An Analysis of Students' Speaking Ability in Retelling Story of the
Third Semester English Language Education Study Program FKIP UIR.

Keywords : Students' Speaking Ability, Retelling Story

The aim of this research was to know students' speaking ability especially in retelling stories,
then find out the dominant problems during the speaking performance of the third semester
English Language Education Study Program FKIP UIR. This research also focused to analysed
based on five components of speaking such as: pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency,
and comprehension.

The design of this research is qualitative research. The sample of this research are 40 students
of English Language Education Study Program of FKIP UIR. The researcher was used speaking
test as instruments of the researcher. To collect the data, the researcher used video conference
(zoom) to observe and giving instruction to ask the students to recording their speaking
performance and submit via Whatsapp. The researcher asks two raters to provide the scores.

The result of this research that students' speaking ability in retelling story especially retelling
narrative text about Dedap Durhake average scores was 3. The first component, in
pronunciation was 3,1 and in grammar component, the average score was 2,9, in the
vocabulary, it was 3,3, in fluency component it was 2,9 and for last component in
comprehension it was 3,2 and at the final point that the most dominant problems that faced by
students' speaking were grammar and fluency.