Sumardi (2012) The use of the think-pair-share strategy to improve the speaking ability of the ninth grade students of SMPN 1 Malang, eats java / Sumardi. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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Program in English Language Teaching State University of Malang. Advisor (1) Prof. Dr. M.Adnan Latief M.A. (2) Dr. Gunadi Harry Sulistyo M.A. Keywords The Use of Improve Think-Pair-Share Strategy Speaking Ability This study is aimed to improve the students speaking ability. The students improvements are indicated with the scores obtained. The scores that are achieved by the student should be above the passing grade that is 75% of the whole class. The improvements toward the skills in speaking such as diction grammar intonation and facial expression are assessed through two types of speaking assessments that is oral presentation and indirect testing. Since this study is to improve the speaking skill this study focuses only on the aspects of the action taken to be elaborated by the students through talking about monolog in terms of report text and non interactive speaking. This study employs the classroom action research relateds with the problems faced in the classroom. This study is administered with the research method. In every cycle of which consists of some actions to improve to evaluate and to change the behavior. The subjects of the research are the students of IX G SMP N 1 Malang East Java. This class consists of 28 students. In the preliminary study the students of IX G achieve only 50% of the minimum passing grade. They have problems in the aspects of facial expression intonation grammar and diction. Besides the students have problems that is their involvement is low their motivation is low and their interest is low as well. There are four kinds of instruments that are used in this study. The first instrument is observation checklist. It is used to investigate the students activities at the teaching and learning process especially during the teaching process and the teacher s activity in teaching. The second instrument is field note. It is used to know the good points and things to be improved on the implementation of the action from the students and the teacher s side. The third instrument is questionnaires which are used to know the students feeling about the implementation of the think-pair-share strategy in their speaking class and the effects of the strategy for their speaking. The final instrument is students task which is used to know the students final product on every cycle. The study conducted is successful in overcoming the problems faced by the students that is students speaking skill and students involvement through the think-pair-share strategy. These findings have achieved the criteria of success. The findings cover some aspects measured by the researcher. The first finding is about the students scores in speaking ability. The finding of the students scores in oral presentation shows that the students groups obtain the category of very good is 25% good is 50% and poor is 25% and very poor is 0%. The scores in the first meeting show that only one group that achieve below the passing grade. However this group achieves 10 in gain in the second meeting. In this case the study conducted achieves 100% from 75% of the Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimum or KKM. Furthermore the finding of the students score in indirect testing shows that there are two kinds of scores that the students have achieved is that above Minimum Passing Grade or MPG is 96 42% and equal to MPG is 3 58%. The second finding is about students involvement in studying. In this study the findings show that in the first meeting the students involvement in the teaching process is in the good level. Meanwhile the finding in the second meeting shows that the students involvement in the teaching process is in the good level. Finally in the third meeting the finding shows that the students involvement is in the good level. The third finding is about the students motivation. In this study the finding shows that the students motivation is good. Furthermore the finding is about the students interest and the teacher s interest toward the strategy implemented. In this case the finding shows that the students interest toward the strategy implemented is satisfactory. They feel comfortable when they study by using the think-pair-share strategy. Meanwhile the finding of the teacher s interest shows that she really likes to know the implementation of the think-pair-share strategy.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2012 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2012 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58589 |
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