The Speaking Ability of the Seventh Grade Students of SMP 2 Margorejo Pati in Academic Year 2011/2012 Taught by Using Think Pair Share Technique.

ABSTRACT Kurniawati, Ika. 2012. The Speaking Ability of the Seventh Grade Students of SMP 2 Margorejo Pati in Academic Year 2011/2012 Taught by Using Think Pair Share Technique. Skripsi. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. Muria Kudus University. Advisor Lecturer: (I) Rismiyanto, SS. M.Pd. (II) Fajar Kartika, SS, M. Hum. Key Words: Speaking Ability and Think-Pair-Share Technique This research comes from the difficulties of the seventh grade students of SMP 2 Margorejo Pati in academic year 2011/2012 in speaking English. They do not have self-confidence and that is why they are afraid to speak English well since they are afraid of making mistakes while they are speaking. Besides, teaching technique can also influence, if the teacher do not use a good and appropriate technique or method in their learning process. Hence, I offer to use Think Pair Share to overcome the problems. Think-Pair-Share technique increases the kinds of personal communications that are necessary for students to internally process, organize and retain ideas. The objective of this research are (i) To find out the speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Margorejo Pati in academic year 2011/2012 taught by using Think Pair Share technique (ii) To find out the speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Margorejo Pati in academic year 2011/2012 taught by Group Discussion (iii) To find out whether or not there is a significant difference between the speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Margorejo Pati in academic year 2011/2012 taught by and without using Think-Pair-Share technique. The design of the research is experimental research by using control group. It can be concluded that this research collect quantitative data and uses statistical formula. The result shows that the speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP 2 Margorejo Pati in academic year 2011/2012 taught by Think Pair Share technique is categorized as sufficient. (Mean = 61,42 and Standard deviation = 9.12). Meanwhile, the speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP 2 Margorejo Pati in academic year 2011/2012 taught by Group Discussion (without using Think Pair Share technique) is categorized as sufficient (Mean = 51.01 and Standard Deviation = 8.34). In the level of significance 0.05 and degree of freedom 68, there is a significant difference between the speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP 2 Margorejo Pati in academic year 2011/2012 taught by and without using Think Pair Share technique because (to 7.13 > tt 2.00) and the t-observation falls in the critical region Finally, I address my suggestion for the teacher: to use TPS as an alternative technique to teach speaking since it has been proved in this research that TPS is effective to lessen students’ dependency on others, For the students: I recommend them to apply and utilize TPS in any occasion