Implementing the Talking Chips strategy Vocabulary Practice

67 students practised on how to use the expression in certain context. So that, the researcher prepared two videos to give the students input on the material they were going to learn. The first video used as the input for the students to implement the Talking Chips strategy. The second video used for individual task. Before the researcher played the first video, the researcher asked the students to learn some vocabulary related to the videos. This would help the students to understand the content of the video. The researcher then played the video, the video was about cyber bullying. After the video ended, the researcher asked questions related to the video. It can be seen in the extract below. Vignette, April 10 th 2014 Setting: XI IA 1 Class ... After the video ended, they then discussed the message of the video. The R asked the Ss, “Do you think that cyber bullying is a bullying?”“Yes” said the Ss. The R then asked one of the Ss to deliver their opinion. “Bullying could make the victims desperate.” said one of the Ss. Vignette 4, Appendix B The researcher then continued the activity by telling the students that they were going to have talking chips activity. The researcher first divided the students into seven groups, each group consists of three to four students. The researcher then explained the rules on how to do the activity. In the beginning the students were confuse on how to do the activity, so the researcher explained the rules again. The researcher wrote some questions related to the video to help the students did their discussion. The last person to talk needed to represent his or her group to deliver the conclusion of their discussion. During the activity the researcher walked around the classroom to check the activity in each group. However, there were some students who could not understand the activity well. It can be seen in the extract below.