The Use of Talking Chips Technique in Teaching Speaking Skill

Abstract

This research to identify how the implementation of Talking Chips technique can improve the students’ speaking ability. population is student of grade X SMA Galajuara. The sample of this study was one class there is of students was 40 students. Research method that used is classroom action research. This study was conducted by using multiple post-test. During the treatments, there were problems related to classroom management, fluency and comprehensibility. Those problems could be minimized. After posttest, there were still problems, but the problems were fewer than previous ones because students had showed the awareness in speaking English. The research findings show that the implementation of talking chips could improve the students’ speaking skill and the classroom situation of speaking class. The improvement of students speaking skill includes: 1) Students had enough vocabulary and pronounce the word correctly and fluent; 2) the students could produce the sentences grammatically correct. The improvement of classroom situation includes: a) the class was more motivation when speaking; b) the students were motivated to speak English than Indonesian. It can be concluded that the implementation of talking chips can improve the students speaking ability in the classroom situation.