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The effects of story retelling on middle school students’ English speaking ability and learning attitudes

To examine the effects of story retelling on middle school students’ speaking ability and learning attitudes, this study used ESPT Teens, the questionnaires, and the self-assessments of 120 first-year boys in a middle school. The results are as follows. Firstly, a statistically significant difference did emerge between the control and the experiment group on students’ speaking ability as well as between pre-test and post-test of the experimental group. There was also difference in fluency, comprehension, and accuracy as the rubric of speaking ability between pre-test and post-test of self-assessment. Secondly, while in the low level group of ESPT Teens there was difference in all parts of the rubric of speaking ability between the control and the experimental group, in the high group there was also difference except pronunciation. In the low and the high group of experimental group, there was significant difference in all parts of the rubric of speaking ability. While in the low level group of the self-assessment there was difference except pronunciation, in the high level group there was no difference in pronunciation and accuracy. Lastly, the story retelling had a positive effect on the students’ self-directed ability and confidence between the experimental and the control group, but it did on the experimental group students’ self-directed ability, interest, and confidence. This study suggested that English teachers should use as many story retelling activities as they could with various English storybooks, and that they should correct the errors of the pronunciation during the discussion at the end of each class.