Improving students’ speaking skill in Narrative Text through Film Storytelling at grade VIII B . SMP Islam Khaira Ummah Padang.

The result of researcher’s experiences in teaching and learning process especially for speaking class at semester one, the researcher found that students had problems with their speaking skill in narrative text though storytelling activity. The students could not produce grammatical sentences and use appropriate pronunciation so that the students could not tell the story fluently. Therefore, the teacher conducted the research by implementing film as media for storytelling. This research was aimed to find out whether film storytelling can better improve the students’ speaking skill. Besides, this research was also purposed to find out the factors that influenced the improvement of students’ speaking skill in narrative through film storytelling. This research was classroom action research that was conducted in SMP Islam Khaira Ummah Padang at grade VIII B that consisted of 13 girl students. This research was done into two cycles for ten meetings and for four steps; plan, action, observation and reflection. For this case, the researcher was helped by collaborator to observe whatever happened during the teaching and learning process. The data were collected by using some instruments such as speaking test, observation sheet, field notes and interview as well. Then, the data of this research were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative data were analyzed by using scoring rubric to get the students’ score for speaking competence. On the other hand, qualitatively data was analyzed though data gotten form observation, filed note and interview descriptively. The findings of the research showed that film storytelling can better improve the students’ speaking skill in narrative text. The improvement was caused by several factors such as media, teaching materials, teaching activity, classroom management, teachers’ strategy and approach. For this reason, it can be concluded that using film storytelling can better improve the students’ speaking skill at grade VIII. B of SMP Islam Khaira Ummah Padang.