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During the students’ discussion about the topic, accuracy and fluency of students would be observed. Besides, in evaluation, the students would be
assessed either their fluency or accuracy.
B. Reviews of Related Studies
During the learning process, there are various activities applied by the teacher. One of those activities is discussion. Talking Chips Strategy is one of
the ways that could be applied by the teacher during the discussion section. This strategy would help the students to promote their speaking skill equally since the
point of this technique is every student in the group should participate and give contribution to the group. There are some similar research that had been
conducted before. The result of the research is described as follows. The first research was conducted by Syafryadin 2011. The research
entitled “The Use of Talking Chips Technique in Improving Students’ Speaking Achievement”. The research shows that Talking Chips Tecnique can improve
the students’ speaking. The students’ scores on speaking skill got improvement and the students showed progress on each cycle in speaking. For example, the
students were active in speaking, high motivation, responsible to their task and so on. Besides, the cooperative learning elements that well implemented during
Talking Chips Technique also help to improve the students’ speaking skill.
Another research was conducted by Hendrawan 2013. The research was conducted as experimental research, entitled “The Effect of Talking Chips
Strategy on Students’ Speaking Ability at Grade XI of SMAN 8 Kota Jambi”.
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strategy gives a significant difference on students’ English speaking ability between experimental class and control class. The significant progress showed in
experimental research. The students in experimental class can give and share their idea and opinion in front of the class bravely. Some positive values are
established there such as togetherness and teamwork. Based on those previous research conducted, it can be concluded that
Talking Chips strategy gives a good impa ct towards the students’ speaking
ability. That is the reason why the researcher tried to conduct a research on “The Use of Talking Chips Strategy to Improve Speaking Ability of Grade XI
Students of SMA N 1 Pengasih in the Academic Year Of 2013 2014”.
C. Conceptual Framework
In order to master English, learners have to master the four skills of English; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Although the four skills are
equally important, speaking could be seen as the leading skill since speaking is one of the ways to communicate with others. As for Senior High School students,
they are expected to have the ability to express the meaning of short functional texts both formal and informal accurately, fluently, and acceptably in the daily
life context. Un
fortunately, there are some problems related to the students’ speaking ability. The problems could be from so many factors, the students, the teacher,
the activities during the learning process, or even the facilities. What mostly
