Male and Female Speech Style in Retelling Story: Are They Different?

This aims of this study namely to know the Comparison Between Male and Female Speech Style on Retelling Story at English Department of IAIN Parepare. The population of this research was the students of English Department, while the sample was the fifth semester students, consist of 20 students, 10 male students and 10 female students was taken by using purposive sampling. The instrument of this research was used in this research was speaking test, and model of the test namely retelling story. The procedures of collecting data namely, ask the student to retell the story that have been given the tittle by the researcher and then students retell the story while recoding by the researcher. The technique of data analysis that used in this research were reduction, display, and draw conclusion. The result of data analysis showed that, male and female had the same style in retelling story. They used formal style, casual style, and intimate style. In the other hand, speech style that was mostly used by the male was consultative style. While female was mostly used casual style, in this case female more dominantly used casual style because they want the hearer enjoy the story and relax when they were retold. In the other hand there was the difference between male and female were in using vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and intonation in retelling the story and its recommended for next researcher.