THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING THINK PAIR SHARE STRATEGY TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE EIGHTH GRADE AT MTS DARUL HIKMAH TULUNGAGUNG

ABSTRACT Azizah, Hanik Lailatul. Students Registered Number. 2813133049. 2017. The Effectiveness of Using Think Pair Share strategy towards the students’ Speaking Ability of the Eighth Grade at MTs DarulHikmahTulungagung. Thesis. English Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: NanySoengkonoMadayani, S.S, M.Pd. Keywords: effectiveness, Think Pair Share strategy, speaking ability Speaking is one of language skills that is needed to be mastered by the students in learning English as foreign language. Most of the students have difficulties in speaking. They are shy and afraid to speak English. Therefore, the researcher interested to finding out whether Think Pair Share strategy is effective to increase the students’ speaking ability of the eight grade at MTs DarulHikmahTulungagung. Think Pair Share is one of cooperative learning strategy type which give the students time to think about topic or problem and share to friends. This research has the purpose to verify Think Pair Share strategy is effective to increase speaking ability. The formulation of the research problems were: 1) How is the students’ speaking scores before being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy? 2) How is the students’ speaking scores after being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy? 3) Is there any significant different score before and after being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy? The objectives of this research were to: 1) know the students’ speaking scores before being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy, 2) know the students’ speaking scores after being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy, 3) know whether there is significant different scores of speaking before and after being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy. The research method used in this research is pre-experimental research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The population of this research was the students of the eighth grade at MTs DarulHikmahTulungagung that consist of four classes and the sample of this research is the students of class 8B which consist of 32 students that are selected by purposive sampling. Meanwhile, the instrument of this research is test which there are two test, they are pre-test and post-test. The data collected through pre-test and post-test were analyzed by using Paired Samples T test with SPSS 16.0. The result showed that the students’ mean score in speaking before being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy is 52.38 and after being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy is 76.91. Besides, the value of significant is 0.000 and the level of significance is 0.05. The value of significance is lower than the level of significance (0.000 < 0.05). It means that Ha which states that there is significant difference between the students’ speaking score before and after being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy is accepted. While, Ho which states that there is no significant difference between the students’ speaking score before and after being taught by using Think-Pair-Share strategy is rejected. From the result, it can be concluded that Think Pair Share strategy is effective to increase the students’ speaking ability