The purpose of Storytelling Club Learners’ characteristics Learning activities

112 Result of Needs Analysis Interview Raw Data Date of Interview : October 10, 2008 Respondent : Th. Eka Oktavianti, S. Pd. English teacher of SMA PL Van Lith

A. The purpose of Storytelling Club

The purpose of storytelling club in SMA PL Van Lith is to facilitate students’ creativity, especially for the students who are interested in storytelling activities. Furthermore, this storytelling club is aimed at improving students’ English language skills especially in speaking skill.

B. Learners’ characteristics

• There are 15 students who join in the storytelling club in SMA PL Van Lith. They are the students of X, XI and XII grade. • In general, the students who join in the storytelling club have high academic achievement especially in English subject. They are active students in the classroom, and also, especially in the English subject.

C. Learning activities

• The students have experienced some common storytelling activities which usually were applied in the storytelling meetings. The activities are: story-reading, story-interpreting, and storytelling. Those activities were sequential. First, the students were asked to read the story. Second, the students interpreted and adopted or adapted the story to make a new story. Last, after the students finish interpreting the story, they were given chance to tell the story in front of audiences. • During the storytelling meeting, the students seemed bored when they had to deal with story-reading. Story-reading was considered as a boring activity. On the other hand, the students seemed to feel excited when they performed their story and when they watched PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 113 their friends’ storytelling performances. However, the students seemed to be less confident when they had to perform storytelling individually compare to group storytelling performance. • The storytelling club meeting was held on every Saturday at 12:00 o’clock and the meeting lasted for 90 minutes up to 120 minutes. However, there was no storytelling club meeting on every Saturday in the second week of the month since the students were given one day off from all school and dormitory routines.

D. Learning materials