THE CONTRIBUTION OF USING THINK-PAIR-SHARE STRATEGY TOWARD SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT MADRASAH ALIYAH AL-MUTTAQIEN SIAK REGENCY

This research was proposed to know about the contribution of using thinkpair-share strategy toward speaking ability of the second grade students at Madrasah Aliyah Al-Muttaqien. The writer tried to find out the answer of formulation of the problems by using the quantitative research. In addition, it was a pre-experimental research and the research design was one-shot case study. To analyze the data, the writer used One-Sample T Test through SPSS 17.0. The result of data analysis by using One-Sample T Test was 7.884. Then, the result should be compared to t-table at 5% level of significant (2.09) or 1% level of significant (2.86). Based on the data analysis, the result of t-obtain was higher than t-table. Therefore, the writer concluded that null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It could be stated that 2.09 < 7.884 > 2.86. In addition, the use of think-pair-share strategy could give influence to students’ speaking ability about 76.6%. From the explanation above, the writer could conclude that there is significant contribution of using think-pair-share strategy toward speaking ability of the second grade students at Madrasah Aliyah Al-Muttaqien Kabupaten siak