The Effectiveness of Think-Pair-Share (Tps) To Improve The Students’ Speaking Ability of The Tenth Grade Students of Smk N 1 Puring In Academic Year 2012/2013

Abstract

The objectives of the study are to know the level of students’ speaking ability after being taught by Think-Pair-Share and to find out whether the use of Think-Pair-Share is effective or not in teaching speaking of the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Puring in academic year 2012/2013. The level students’ speaking ability was known from the mean score of post-test in experimental group that given treatment using Think-Pair-Share. The mean score of post-test in experimental group was 70.56. It was on good grade. The computation of  was 4.11 and  was 1.99 with the significant level = 5% and df = 70.  So, the  is higher than (4.11>1.99). It means that Using Think-Pair -Share strategy to improve student’s speaking ability of the tenth grade students of Senior High School of SMK N1 Puring in the academic year 2012/2013 is effective

Keywords: Effectiveness, Think-Pair-Share, Speaking Ability