FA’ALIYATU ISTIRAATIJIYAT RIWAYATI AL-QHOSHAHI AR_RAQMIYYAH LITARQIYATI QUDRATU AT-TULLAB ‘ALA MAHAARATI AL-KALAM

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the Digital Storytelling
strategy in improving students’ speaking skills. This study uses a quantitative
research method of experimental type or true experimental design using a pretestposttest
control group design. Participants in the study were class VIII participants
at an Integrated Islamic Junior High School (SMP IT) in Palangka Raya City. . From
this study found the following results: 1. participants in the control class showed an
increase in speaking ability seen from the average value of the pretest and posttest
results, namely the pretest average value of 77.02 increased to 92.64 in the average
value. average posttest results. So it can be concluded that participants’ speaking
skills can improve even if they do not use digital story telling (DST) strategies.
2. Participants from the experimental class showed an increase in speaking ability
seen from the average value of the pretest and posttest results, namely the average
pretest value of 76.02, an increase in the average value of the posttest results to
94.41. So it can be concluded that the digital story telling (DST) strategy can improve
participants’ speaking skills. 3. The comparison of the posttest average value of the
experimental class and the control class using the Mann Whitbey test because the
data is not normally distributed, a significance value of 0.084 is obtained, which is
greater than 0.05, so there is no significant difference in learning outcomes between
the experimental class participants who learn to use a digital story telling (DST)
strategy with control class participants who do not use this strategy. However,
because the posttest average value of the experimental class was higher, the digital
story telling (DST) strategy was more effective for the participants in this study.