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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
A. Review of Previous Studies
There are five previous studies that closely have the same topic with this research. In this part, the previous studies done by five researchers are compared
with this research. Those five researchers had different focus of studies. Septian 2009 in
“Designing Storytelling Learning Activities to Enhance English Speaking Skill for Senior High School Students
” used some theories like: Instructional Design, Educational Research and Development, Storytelling,
Learning Activities, Speaking Skill, Communicative Language Teaching and Learners‟ Characteristics. The result of this research found that the students really
enjoy learning to speak English by using storytelling because it was fun. The research about
“The Effects of Using Digital Storytelling in English Classroom on Korean ELL Learner‟s Attitude” was done by Yoon 2013. The
participants were from the 5
th
grade of students. While doing this research, Yoon asked those respondents to do pre and post-test to measure their mastery of
English. This research found that the students got involved in the story not only because of the motivation to participate in English class activities, but also the
students became more confident in learning English. In 2013, Kestha did a research that focused
on “The Teachers of Palestinian Public and URWA Schools
‟ Perspective while Facing the Difficulty in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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ling”. The respondents were from the teachers themselves. She interviewed 60 teachers with different degrees of education and teaching
period. The researcher found that digital storytelling made the students happy and easy to memorize stories from the digital storytelling. According to those
teachers, the greatest difficulty was on the lack of time duration when the class was started.
Esleem ‟s research 2012 focused on “The Effectiveness of Using Story
Grammar Approach to Develop Reading Skill in the 9
th
Grade Students of URWA Schools
”. The researcher compared class A to B with different method to approach the students. It said that there are some differences between the pre-test
and post-test of the experimental groups compared to the control group s‟ results.
Other previous study was done by Abidin et al 2011. They observed the effect of using digital story on understanding English as a second language. Their
respondents were from 6-year-old preschool children in Penang, Malay. From a listening section, a result was revealed that the use of internet-based technology
by the 6-year-old preschool children improved their understanding of spoken English as their second language.
This research focuses on the improveme nt of students‟ narrative writing
skill through the use of digital storytelling, while other previous studies focused on speaking skill. The observing media is different with Septian 2009 who used
the old way storytelling and Esleem 2012 who used story grammar approach. This research uses digital storytelling. Comparing to Yoon 2013, Kestha 2013,
Esleem 2012, and Abidin et al 2011, their participants were different with this PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI