MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN BERBICARA SISWA KELAS VIIIA MTS ZAINUL BAHAR MELALUI STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF TIPE THINK PAIR SHARE (TPS)

Abstract

Abstract : The lack of students’ speaking skill was one the causes of students’ inactivity in the classroom. Speaking skills that had not been mastered by the students were linguistic factors and non-linguistic factors. The linguistic factors that had been mastered yet by students were pronunciation, intonation, tone pressure, inappropriate duration, and also the sentences used by students were still not effective. The nonlinguistic factors that had been mastered yet by students were lack of bravery, fluency, loudness, and mastering the topic. One of the ways to overcome the problems was by applying cooperative learning strategy through think pair share type (TPS). This research was called Classroom Action Research (CAR). The approaches used in this research were qualitative and quantitative approaches. The respondents of this research were students of class VIII A at MTs Zainul Bahar, Wringin sub-distric, Bondowoso regency. The data analysis was administered whether or not there was an improvement of students’ speaking skill. The result showed that there was an improvement of students’ speaking skill with the percentage of pre-cycle was 25%, the first cycle was 46,9%, the second cycle was 87,5%.

Key Words : CAR, linguistic factors and non-linguistic factors, speaking skill, TPS