The Effect of Using Think-Pair Share Strategy on the Students’ Ability in Writing Recount Text at Junior High School 1 Kampar Timur.

ABSTRACT Vivi Lestari, (2019): The Effect of Using Think-Pair Share Strategy on the Students’ Ability in Writing Recount Text at Junior High School 1 Kampar Timur. According to preliminary research, it was found that the eight grade students of state Junior High School 1 Kampar Timur had difficulties in writing recount text such as unable to use a good grammatical features, had lack of vocabulary, unable to express their ideas, unable to develop the ideas into the paragraph, unable to determine the sequence of events in recount text. This research aimed to find out the difference between using and without using Think-Pair Share on students’ ability in writing recount text at the eight grade of State Junior High School 1 Kampar Timur. This research was a quasi-experimental research. Therefore, this research used two groups; control group and experimental group. The writer formulated the problems that would be answered by using the quantitative research. The subject of the research was the eight grade students of State Junior High School 1 Kampar Timur. The objects of this research were Think-Pair Share and their ability in writing recount text. Sample of this research used Total Sampling. There were 38 students as sample from 137 students. To analyze the data, the writer used independent sample t-test by using SPSS 21 version by Julie Pallant. Based on the data analysis, the writer found that the result t-test formula was 4.708 with df = 36, it was found the level significance of 5% was 2.03 and level significance of 1% was 2.72. The data showed that tobserved was higher than ttable; 2.03 2.72, it means that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. It means that there was a significant difference between using and without using Think-Pair Share on the students’ ability in writing recount text at the eight grade of State Junior High School 1 Kampar Timur. Keyword: Writing Ability, Recount Text, Think-Pair Share