THE EFFECT OF THINK PAIR SHARE TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING.

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THE EFFECT OF THINK PAIR SHARE TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’

ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING

A THESIS

Submitted to the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan, in Partial Fulfillment of the

Requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

By:

DESSY PUTRI UTAMI

Registration Number : 2113321006

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, the writer would like to express her deepest gratitude to Allah SWT., for uncountable blessing, loves, opportunity and strength given to the writer during her study and in completing this thesis which entitled: “The effect of Think Pair Share Technique on Students’ Achievement in Speaking”. This thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan of the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State

 Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd., as the Rector of State University of Medan.  Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., as the Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts, State

University of Medan.

 Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., as the Head of English and Literature Department and also as her Advisor of Thesis.

 Nora Ronita Dewi, S.S., M.Hum., as the Head of English Department Program, Faculty Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.

 Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed., as the Academic Advisor.  Prof. Dr. Lince Sihombing, M.Pd., her Reviewer and Examiner.  Dr. Zainuddin, DIP,. TEFL,. M.Hum,. her Reviewer and Examiner.

 All the Lecturers of English Department who have taught, guided, and advised her throughout the academic years.

 Mam Euis, as the Administration Staff of English Department, for her attention, assistance, and information in completing it.

 Muhammad Yusuf, S.Pd., as an English Motivator for the assistance, guidance, support, suggestions and comments in the process of completing this thesis.

 Liza Insyirah, S.Pd., as a Mentor for the guidance and suggestions in the process of completing this thesis.

 Zulaifa, S.Pd., as a Mentor for the guidance and suggestions in the process of completing this thesis.

 Her beloved father, Ramli, S.H., her lovely mother, Hj. Endang Sri Mulyani, S.Sos., and her beloved brothers Brigadir. Khair Maulana Wibowo, S.H and Emir Faisal Ramadhan, S.Sos., for their support and suggestions to the writer.

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Christine Lewis, MA,. TESOL., Tracey Cordle, Andrew McReynold and some others, and also from the Strong Girls’ Community, for every single helps, supports, suggestions and loves that was so means a lot for the writer.

The writer realizes that this thesis still has the paucity, she conveniently welcomes any suggestions, comments critics, and advices that will improve the quality of this thesis. She hopes that this thesis would be useful for those who are read and interested in the field of this study.

Medan, July 2015

The writer,

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ABSTRACT

Utami, Dessy Putri. 2015. The Effect of Think Pair Share Technique on Students’ Achievement in Speaking. A Thesis. Medan : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.

This study aims to find out whether Students’ Achievement taught by using Think Pair Share

Technique has significant effect than taught Dictation Technique in Speaking. The research was conducted by Experimental research using in two groups. They are experimental used Think Pair Share Technique and Control used Dictation Technique. The subject of this research are the students of SMAN 6 Medan class X-2 and X-3 consisted of 38 students for each class. The data was taken from speaking test. After analyzing the data, it was found that the value of t-observed was 3.982 with degree of freedom (df) 38 at the level of significance p (0.05) = 2.024. It means that t-observed is higher than t-table. It was found that Students Achievement in Speaking taught by Think Pair Share Technique has significant effect than Dictation Technique.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. The Background of The Study

Language is the most important thing for people as a mean of

communication in this world. It is basically a means of both oral and written

communication. As we know English is the number one of the international

languages. It is also needed by young learners until adult learners, specifically for

students in Indonesia. Students have to implemented language as skills that has

been divided into four skills namely listening, speaking, reading and writing.

These are the main goals that should be achieved in teaching and learning

processes.

According to my Preliminary Data in SMA Negeri 6 Medan ,There is using

KTSP (Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan) which still be able implement that

curriculum as a united for education in that school. I also have been interviewed

the English teacher about the ability of students in English subject that still have

many problem with students’ ability in English especially in speaking skill.

Students acquiring second language is that they may imply something that

they don’t wish to communicate. Students be able to communicative in learn

English to determine some aspects needed in teaching learning process

specifically teaching speaking, student think that speaking is very difficult to

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Speaking is the verbal use of language to communicate with others.

Halliday:1985 states that the purposes which we wish to communicate with others

are so large that they are innumerable but speaking nevertheless differs from

written language in a number of respects.

Maxom (2008:183) states that speaking is the most important skill in

English language teaching to be mastered in school. Through speaking, students

express their ideas, feelings and desires to others. In school, the students learn

how to speak English easier because there are teachers and friends who can be

their facilitators and pairs to practice speaking in English.

School as a formal institution to gain knowledge upon graduation students

are for sure should be proficient in speaking. Infact, students can’t pass English

skills very well , it has been proved by their scores in English skills which is not

achieve enough to the KKM ( Minimal Passing Criteria) for the English subject is

75.It happened of the students who do not study hard in learn English subject

because of English is very difficult for them.

In line with the reason above, students must increase their ability in

learning English subjects. In speaking, students can develop their ideas by their

critical thinking about something happens and also it will be more important to

make their self more confidence while transferring any information to the

listeners.

Many teachers agree that students should learn to speak English by

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weaknesses due to their ability in speaking is not good, they feel shy and not have

self confidence in their ability.

In this case, students should master several speaking components such as ;

pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and fluency. In brief, English teacher should

be creative to develop their ability in speaking English.

Moreover, researcher needs a technique to overcome this problem for

students’ in Senior High School, to improve their speaking ability. Researcher

opted Think Pair Share as a technique as a way to make students’ improvement.

Think Pair Share (TPS) is a cooperative learning technique that encourages

individual participation and it is applicable across all grade levels and class sizes.

These can be viewed as a family of three-step techniques. (a) Students work

individually. (b) Students take turns to tell or describe with their partner. (c)

Students discuss and report to the class. They share what they have learned with

group members (Lyman, 1992). According to previous researcher, Think pair

Share is one of the cooperative learning technique could built the students’ ability

in speaking.

In line with the analyses of teaching speaking and students’ speaking

ability, the researcher is very much interested in discovering whether the use of

Think Pair Share (TPS) has an effect on students’ speaking achievement. Besides

of that, Think Pair Share (TPS) technique has the strength in improve the

students’ ability in speaking, the strengths are making students aware that

speaking is easier than they think, by Think, they can develop their ideas by

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By pairing, students can make a discussion with their friend about collecting

the words and arranging the words into one structural conversations and probably

for them to make a dialog based on what they want to criticize means like a latest

issues or topic, and also it would make exchange their ideas with their pair. And

then Share, after they discuss about the topic that they want to share about, it

might be to share their result’s discussion to the audiences or to the whole classes

which is can make evaluation for their discussion by comment or suggestion from

others respondents.

That is the reason why the researcher would like to conduct a study on

students’ speaking ability by choosing Think Pair Share (TPS) as the technique to

achieve students’ ability in speaking.

B. The Problem of the Study

Based on the Background of the Study, the problem is formulated as follows :

“Is there any significant effect of Think Pair Share on the students’

achievement in speaking?”

C. The Objective of the Study

In relation to the problem of study, the objective of the study is to investigate

the effect of Think Pair Share (TPS) technique on Students’ Speaking

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D. The Scope of the Study

There are many ways to create the Teaching Learning process that teacher can

do to improve students’ achievement especially in teaching English. Specifically

this study focused on students’ achievement in speaking is Think Pair Share (TPS)

technique. In other words, the study is concentrated on the speaking. The material

is Asking and Giving Opinion in a topic about preferably a social issue, for

example Environment, Politics, Education, Corruption, etc.

E. The Significance of the Study :

The findings of this study will be useful :

a. For the English teachers to improve their skills in teaching speaking

using Think Pair Share Technique.

b. For the English students to apply and practice speaking materials by

using Think Pair Share Technique.

c. For other researchers who will conduct the research at the same area with

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

This study dealt with speaking ability. The problem was whether teaching speaking by

Think Pair Share (TPS) technique was significant effect than by using dictation technique. To

answer this problem , a hypothesis was stated as follows : Teaching Speaking by using Think

Pair Share technique was significant effect than by using dictation technique in students’

speaking achievement. So Think Pair Share technique is better used to improve the students’

speaking achievement than Dictation technique.

B. Suggestion

In the relation to the conclusion above , the researcher some suggestion as following

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1) It suggested to the English writer to apply Think Pair Share technique in improving the

students’ speaking with giving the interesting explanation, good motivation and giving

much time for the students to practice it.

2) It suggested to the students to be brave and want to try practice to speak up in English

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