THE EFFECT OF THINK PAIR SHARE TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING

Abstract

This study aims to find out whether students’ achievement taught by using Think
Pair Share Technique has significant effect than taught Dictation Technique in
Speaking. The research was conducted by Experimental research using in two
groups. They are experimental used Think Pair Share Technique and Control used
Dictation Technique. The subject of this were the students of SMAN 6 Medan
class X-2 and X-3 consisted of 38 students for each class. The data was taken
from Speaking test. After analyzing the data, it was found that the value of t-obs
was 3.982 with degree of freedom (df) 38 at the level of significance p (0.05) =
2.024. It means that t-obs is higher than t-table. It was found that students
achievement in Speaking taught by Think Pair Share Technique has significant
effect than Dictation Technique.