YULIANA SULISTYORINI , 2201407159 (2011) The Use of Think-Pair-Share Strategy to Improve Students’ Speaking Ability (An Experimental Study at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 1 Karangkobar in the Academic Year of 2010/2011). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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This final project is based on the purpose which is to find out how effective is the use of think-pair-share strategy to improve students’ speaking ability is. It belongs to the experimental research. The independent variable of this research is the use of think-pair-share strategy and the dependent variable is the students’ achievement of speaking skill. These skills are accent, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The research used the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Karangkobar in the academic year 2010/2011 as the population, and two classes as the experimental and control groups which consisted of 33 students as the samples. There were some steps in doing the research. First, 34 students were given the try-out to find its validity. Second, both the experimental and control groups were given the pre-test. After that, some treatments were also given to the students. There were two meetings for the experimental group using think-pair-share strategy and two meetings for the control group using conventional method. In each treatment for the experimental group, the students were asked to describe something related to the question posed by the teacher. Meanwhile for the control group, they were given a short conversation related to the descriptive text. The last step, the students were asked to do the post-test. It was to find out the effectiveness of the treatments. Then, the scores of the students in the pre- and post-test were analyzed. The difference of the pre-test score’s average of the experimental and control groups was 1.21 while the difference average score of the post-test was 3.85. In addition, the difference between the pre-test and the post-test of experimental group is 18.09. It is higher than the control group which has average score of 15.45. It can be concluded that think-pair-share strategy is effective to improve the students’ speaking ability

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