Abstract This research aims to analyze the use of Talking Chips technique to improve students’ speaking skill to eleventh grade students of SMA Kristen Makedonia Ngabang in Academic Year 2015/2016. This research was one of pre-experimental design, namely one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample was eleventh grade students ClassXI IPA 1, which consisted of 20 students. The tool used for collecting the data was pre-test and post-test. The test was reading aloud test. The research finding indicates that the students’ mean score in post-test is 80 higher than their mean score in pre-test which is 63. It is found out that the result of the t-test is 7.79. The t-table with the degree of freedom 19 is 2.093. Because the result of t-test is higher than t-table, the alternative hypothesis “The use of talking chips technique can improve students’ speaking skill to the eleventh grade students of SMA Kristen Makedonia Ngabang in Academic Year 2015/2016†is accepted.Keywords: Talking Chips, Improve, Speaking skill
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