The effect of think pair share (TPS) strategy on speaking mastery at The Eleventh Grade Students of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan

Siregar, Fitri Ani (2021) The effect of think pair share (TPS) strategy on speaking mastery at The Eleventh Grade Students of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study intended to investigate the effect of think pair share strategy on students’ speaking mastery at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. The problems faced by students in speaking were: 1) Students were lack of practices, participation and motivation when speaking English learning activity, 2) Students were afraid of making mistakes when speaking English. The purposes of this study were to describe the students’ ability in speaking English before learning by using think pair share strategy, to describe the students’ ability in speaking English after learning by using think pair share strategy and to examine whether there was significant effect of think pair share strategy on students’ speaking ability at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. This study used experimental method with pre-test and post-test design. The population was all of the students at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. The samples were XI-1 grade as experimental class consisting of 10 students and XI-2 grade as control class consisting of 11 students. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test in speaking test and analyzed by using T-test formula. The result of this study showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher than the mean score of control class after learning by using Think Pair Share strategy. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 55.2 and the mean score of control class in pre-test was 54.5. Moreover, the mean score of experimental class in post-test was 74.9 and the mean score of control class in post-test was 72. In addition, after doing T-test, this study found that tcount > ttable (3.620> 2.093). Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study was accepted and null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was effect of think pair share strategy on students’ speaking ability at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan.

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