have to tell about the commands in the chip to the other friend and the time is about two minutes for each chip, then the teacher will give score based on the
time and speaking skill aspects like pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and fluency used by the students when they are telling the things in the chip to the
other friend. The last step is if the students have finished tell the things in the chip, it must be given again to the moderator; they may not speak again and return to
their chairs.
b. Significance of Talking chips
Kagan 2011 asserts that talking chips as one of the teaching strategies in cooperative learning plays the significant role in the teaching and learning process
of speaking. First, talking chips can improve students’ achievement. And it also will build an interaction among the students to create mutual understanding
between the members of the group. As we know the activity in talking chips isby dividing students into groups, it will encourage the students to be more confident
to speak with others, and it will make the students tend to interact and communicate to other students. And then, the students will learn how to work
with and understand other group members by working in the group. Talking chips also improve the students’ higher level thinking skills since
it consists of some steps in which the students have to evaluate someone else’s opinion or arguments, it will increase the students’ level thinking skill. To make it
effective, they must know what to look for and be able to justify their comments.
Based Education broadcasting corporation 2004 in
What are The benefits of Cooperative ad Collaborative Learning?
There are also some advantages from small groups learning in cooperative learning that can be found in talking chips.
They are mentioned as follows. 1
Celebration of diversity By doing discussion, the students learn how to work with the others. They will
learn how to response the differences. Discussion also allows students to add their perspective to an issue based on their cultural and background knowledge
differences. 2
Acknowledgement of individual differences Each student has different response or opinion toward the raising issue. This
can help the group create more complete and comprehensive result as t reflects all the member’s opinions.
3 Interpersonal development
Students can get benefit from structured interactions with others. By working together in the group, students who have lack of social skill will be helped to
interact with others. 4
Actively involving students in learning Each member has opportunities to contribute in talking chips because they
have an equal chance to speak up. 5
More opportunities for personal feedback Since there are more exchanges among the students in talking hips, the
students receive more personal feedback about their ideas and responses. By
