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The Use of Talking Chips Technique in Students' Impromptu Speaking (the Quasi Experimental Design at First Year in University of Swadaya Gunung Jati Cirebon)

The purpose of learning language is to communicate with people. It means that speaking is one important skill in learning language. Based on pre-observation, students encountered many problems, such as lack of vocabularies, grammar, fluency and pronunciation. Therefore, the writer wanted to solve those problems by using Talking Chips technique in teaching speaking. The aims of the study were to find out the data of the use of Talking Chips technique affects students or not, and to find out the students' responses about Talking Chips technique in speaking class. The subject of this study was the First Year in University in Cirebon. The total sample was fourty students. This study used quasi experimental design with control class. In experimental class, the class which used Talking Chips technique in teaching speaking, it was conducted in three steps, such as pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The findings of this study were that Talking Chips technique is effective to students' speaking ability, especially in impromptu speaking. By comparing the mean score of experimental and control class, it was found that the Talking Chips technique is effective in teaching speaking. From the data, it can be concluded that many students spoke in English very often therefore the students got higher scores. It was supported by the data of questionnaire of students' responses. Those responses said that Talking Chips gives many benefits to foster students' speaking ability.
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Improving Students' Reading Ability Using Grammar Translation Method

–This research aims at revealing: (1) To find out whether Grammar Translation Method can improve the reading ability; (2) To find out the strengths and weaknesses of Grammar Translation Method. The Class Action Research was carried out in MA Salafiyah Cirebon in academic year of 2011/2012 from April to June 2012. The population was the first semester of MA Salafiyah in academic year of 2011/2012. The number of population was 22 students. The results of this research were: (1) The Grammar translation Method can Improves the students' reading ability, it can be seen in the table 1; (2) The strengths of Grammar Translation Method was the students challenged to read the difficult texts. And the weakness of Grammar Translation Method was felt bored to memorize the vocabularies and irregular verb. Key words: Reading ability, grammar translation method, and class action research.
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