English language teaching: students’ speaking mastery by time token method during new normal condition of covid-19
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Speaking is one of important skill that should be mastered by students in order to be able to communicate English fluently and clearly. Based on the observation, the first grade students of Nursing Academy at Politeknik Negeri Madura faced some problems in English Language Teaching especially relate with learning speaking. It make the researcher try to find a good method in order to make students be more active in speaking. One of a good method that suitable to solve this problem is Time Token method. To apply this method the researcher use some cards which consist of 30 seconds for each card. Every students has an opportunity to deliver their opinion according to the time that they have on each card that they got. This research aims to know the implemention of Time Token Method improve students’ speaking ability at the first grade students of Nursing Academy at Politeknik Negeri Madura. The second is to know whether Time Token Method improve students’speaking ability on describing picture at the first grade students of Nursing Academy at Politeknik Negeri Madura.
This research was use Classroom Action Research (CAR) design. The subject of this research are the first grade students of Nursing Academy at Politeknik Negeri Madura with total number of student are 25 students. There are two cycles of action, wich each cycle consist one meeting. Based on the result, mean score of the test of cycle 1 was 63,6 and the percentage of students was 40%. The mean score of cycle 2 was 71 and the percentage score was 80%. From this research, the final result of the improvement is 40 %. It can be conclude that using of Time Token Method Improve Students’ Speaking Ability at the first grade students of Nursing Academy at Politeknik Negeri Madura. As suggestions, it can be conveyed that Time Token Method can make students’ active and effective to speak English well in the class.
Keywords: Speaking Ability; Time Token Method
