The Application Of Talking Stick Method In Improving Students’ Speaking Ability

Talking stick method is one of innovative strategy in order to make the students speak up and express their idea, so that this method is very suitable to use in speaking class. The purpose of this study is to discover whether the application of talking stick method improved students’ speaking ability.This quantitative study, employed pre-experimental research design. The data collection process was carried out by doing pre-test and post-test. The sample was 33 students class VIII B from second grade students of SMPN 10 Banda Aceh. This research was conducted to attain the information about the improvement of the students’ speaking ability. After the use of talking stick method, the result of the test shows that the mean score of pre-test is 65.6 while in the post-test is 80.8. It proved that the mean score of both are very different. Moreover, based on the analysis of hypothesis showed that T-test> T-table (12.6>2). Therefore, it can be concluded that teaching by using talking stick method can improve the students’ speaking ability.