viii ABSTRACT
The Effect of Think Pair Share Technique to Improve Speaking Ability of the Eleventh Grade Students at SMA Al-Huda Jatimulyo.
Dian Apriyanti 17113010
The purpose of this study was to find out whether there were significant differences in the Think-Pair-Share Technique to improve the speaking ability of the eleventh-grade students at SMA Al-Huda Jatimulyo. The method of this research was quantitative. This research used some appropriate data such as pre-test and post-test to collect the data. The analysis used was the t-test with help of SPSS for windows version 17. The t-test post-test of the Experimental and control group aimed to determine whether there was an increase in the score. The subject of this research was the students of eleventh grade in SMA Al- Huda Jatimulyo.
The research findings of this research show that there were significant differences after being taught using the Think-Pair-Share Technique on students’ speaking ability. The t-test was declared significant t-count was 4.287 and t-table at a significant level 5% was 2.045. Meanwhile, the p-value was 0.000 a smaller than the t table at a significant level of 5%. From the statistical calculation, the p-value is smaller than the t table. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Hο) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Hα) was accepted. It means that there was an effect of the Think-Pair-Share technique on students’
speaking ability of the eleventh grade in SMA Al-Huda Jatimulyo.
Keywords: Speaking, Think-Pair-Share, Students, Classroom
