<![CDATA[The objectives of this research were to find out whether there was a statistically significant improvement on students’ speaking skills in English after the students were taught the retelling story technique and to investigate the relation between students’ responses and their speaking achievement. This study was conducted through quantitative approaches, with a total of 30 tenth-grade students at SMAN 1 Gadingrejo. The data were collected by using a speaking test and questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using a Paired Sample t-test and a Pearson Product Moment. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement in students’ speaking skills in English after the students were taught the retelling story technique, it can be seen from the result of the Paired-Sample T-Test where the significant value was lower than 0.05 (0.000.309). Hence, it can believe that the retelling story technique is effective to improve students’ speaking skills in English and also the students’ response plays q big role in their achievement after the implementation of the technique in learning language process.Keywords: speaking skills, retelling story technique, a physical object.]]>
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