<![CDATA[Children are part of the younger generation. Acceptance from the family environment is the primary basis for children to grow and develop well. At school, children often communicate through storytelling activities with teachers and friends. Stories make it easier for children to understand knowledge. Stories for children can be a means to increase children's vocabulary and build a network of expertise within children. The storytelling method has many advantages, including spurting children's verbal abilities and linguistic intelligence and encouraging children to enjoy listening to stories and telling or talking (Syafi'i & Gumiandari, 2023). Storytelling is part of receptive language because, in this ability, the meaning of language is obtained and processed through visual and verbal symbols taught. However, many students in grade 2 of elementary school still need to achieve the expected abilities (Setiyaningsih et al., 2023). Knowing the Implementation of Storytelling Method to Improve Receptive Language Development in Grade 2 Children at Cengklik Surakata State Elementary School. This study uses a research design called "One Group Pre-Test Post-Test Design" with a purposive sampling technique, taking 30 children. The collected data will be analyzed univariately and bivariately. This study's results are an increase in the average (mean) of Receptive Language ability before treatment, namely 77.23 to 79.40 after treatment—the statistical test results in this study from the Shapiro-Wilk analysis results. With the p-value <0.05, the distributed data in this study is not standard. So, the Wilcoxon Test is used for further analysis. Based on the Wilcoxon Test, the Asymp. The Sig (-2 tailed) value is 0.000 <0.05, so it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test results. A Storytelling Method Implemented to Improve Receptive Language Development in Grade 2 Children at Cengklik Surakarta State Elementary School.. ]]>
