The Implementation of Talking Chips Technique in Improving Students' Speaking Ability at MAN 2 Bandar Lampung

E. Lilis Yulisa, Hery Yufrizal, Ari Nurweni

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah diajarkan dengan teknik Talking Chips dan aspek berbicara apa yang paling meningkat. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan dilakukan kepada 27 siswa kelas XI IIS 1 di MAN 2 Bandarlampung. Peneliti memberikan tes berbicara untuk pengumpulan data. Hasilnya menunjukan bahwa terdapat peningkatan yang signifikan terhadap kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah diajarkan Talking Chips  teknik. Hal itu dapat terlihat dari peningkatan nilai rata-rata siswa dari pretes ke postest, 43.68 ke 67.34. Disamping itu, peningkatan terbesar dari setiap aspek adalah aspek pemahaman. Hal ini dapat terlihat dari nilai rata-rata aspek pemahaman dari pretes ke postest, 7.34 ke 14.83. T-Test tersebut menyatakan bahwa hasil tes-tes tersebut adalah signifkan, karena p<0.05, p= .000. Dengan demikian, Talking Chips  adalah teknik yang sesuai untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa.

This research was aimed at finding out whether there was a significant improvement in students’ speaking ability after being taught through Talking Chips Technique and which speaking aspect improved the most. This research used quantitative approach and was conducted to 27 students in class XI IIS 1 of MAN 2 Bandarlampung. The researcher administered speaking test to collect the data. The result showed that there was an improvement in students speaking ability after being taught through Talking Chips Technique. It could be seen from the increase of students’ mean score from pre-test to posttest, 43.68 to 67.34. Besides, the most improvement of each speaking aspect was comprehension. This could be seen from the mean score of comprehension from pre-test to posttest, 7.34 to 14.83. The T-test revealed those results were significant because p<0.05, p= .000. Thus, Talking Chips Technique is one of the appropriate techniques to improve students’ speaking ability.

Keywords: Talking Chips Technique, speaking ability, improvement.


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