Fostering Students’ Speaking Skill by Using Talking Stick Strategy (Classroom Action Research at SMA Negeri 4 Langsa)

This thesis entitled “Fostering Students’ Speaking Skill by Using Talking Stick Strategy ( A Classroom Action Research at SMA Negeri 4 Langsa ).There are some problem in teaching speaking. Firts, it is related to the condition of students that they have some vocabularies but they do not ways to say something because they afraid to get grammatical errors. Second, most of students are not confident to use English in speaking class and the last problem the student often speak their Acehness or Indonesian lamguage. The problem of this research were: how can talking stick strategy can foster students ability in speaking and how is the class activity when the teacher apllied talking stick strategy in teaching speaking. The purpose of this research were: to know how talking stick strategy can foster the students’ speaking ability and to know the class activity when the teacher applies talking stick strategy in teaching speaking.