Improving Students’ Writing Skill Through Think Pair Share Technique at the Second Grade of Mts Al-Khoirot Karangsuko

Abstract

Think Pair Share is a cooperative learning that may influence the students‟ writing skill through thinking, pairing and sharing. In this present study, the researcher tries to identify whether or not the Think Pair Share technique as a teaching writing shows a good result on students‟ writing ability of Mts Al-Khoirot Karangsuko. Therefore, this study is conducted to know the effectiveness of Think Pair Share in teaching writing in order to help the students improve their writing skill and also might give the contribution for the teachers in designing the appropriate and effective teaching technique dealing with the subject or material they teach. This study employed experimental research design in the form of nonrandomized with different treatment of two different classes, because they were already organized well in class. For the purpose of collecting data, 44 students were participated in this study. In line with that the researcher used written test to be the instrument. The experimental class was treated or taught by using TPS technique. The control class was not treated by using TPS technique. Than, the test was also given to both experimental and control class. The researcher use SPSS_20 to count t-test and know the significant difference between the mean score of the experimental and control class. Based on the data analysis, the significant column value of t-test was 0.000 it was less than 0.05, it indicated that the result of t-test analysis was significant. In addition, the results simply contribute to make students became more enthusiastic and active doing the learning process. This was also giving the evidence that for this research the implementation of Think Pair Share technique was an effective teaching technique to help teacher in achieving the goal of teaching learning process, especially in teaching writing. Thus, it indicated that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted