Using The Story Completion Technique In Teaching English Speaking Skills At Islamic Boarding School

This research is about using the Story Completion Technique in Teaching English Speaking Skills at Islamic Boarding School. The aim was to examine whether using Story Completion technique in teaching speaking skills can improve speaking skills of the first-year students of MAS Darul Ihsan, Aceh Besar. The design of this research was experimental teaching. The population of the study was the whole member of the first-year students of MAS Darul Ihsan, Aceh Besar. I used purposive sampling to choose the sample of the research. The sample was the students of class X-F as the experimental class and class X-E as the control class. The quantitative data were collected by using pre-test and post-test. After getting the data, the results of the tests were analyzed by using statistical procedures. It was found that the average score of post-test of experimental class (72.27) was higher than the average score of control class (62.04). It showed that the students of experimental class improved their speaking skills. Furthermore, it also proved by examining hypothesis that to was higher than t-table (3.38 > 1.68). This means that there was significant difference of achievement between the students who were taught by using Story Completion technique, and the students who were taught without using the Story Completion technique.