TEACHING SPEAKING BY USING RETELLING FAMOUS FAIRY TALES

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ABSTRACT

This paper is aims to give explanation about teaching speaking by using famous fairy tales especially for junior high school students. Besides, this paper is aimed at sharing ideas to the teachers, learners and the readers about the use of retelling famous fairy tales in teaching speaking in learning English. The teacher should try to use attractive text to attract the students’ interest to help the student to speak fluently. Speaking is important for us because by speaking we can make real life communication situation with the other. We can use a text to increase students’ speaking ability because by using the text they can imagine to speak freely and express their ideas by their own word by looking the text And then the teacher explains the text And then the teacher asks the students to retell the text by their own word in a good pronunciation, sound, gesture, and intonation in front of the class. The teacher should select the text to make the students interest and student’s attention in teaching and learning process, because it is very important especially in English learning.

Keywords: Teaching Speaking, Retelling Famous Fairy Tales