THE INFLUENCE OF USING COOPERATIVE LEARNING ( THINK PAIR SHARE TECHNIQUE) TOWARDS STUDENTS WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHT GRADE AT SMP NEGERI 19 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2023/2024

Aisma, Nurul Huda (2024) THE INFLUENCE OF USING COOPERATIVE LEARNING ( THINK PAIR SHARE TECHNIQUE) TOWARDS STUDENTS WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHT GRADE AT SMP NEGERI 19 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2023/2024. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is one of skills that improve students’ ideas from their thinking and imagination. Writing is a very complex process, because before people want to write, they should have writing ability that consists of grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, topic, and developed ideas. Most of the students faced difficulty in making a paragraph in writing, lacking vocabulary and grammar are considered as the problems in composing a good sentence in paragraph. In addition, the students were also confused in putting the ideas to develop sentences to be paragraphs as well, especially descriptive text. Some techniques were needed by the teacher to overcome the problems. One of techniques to improve their writing is think pair share technique. The objective of this research was to find out whether there was the influence of using TPS technique towards students’ writing ability in descriptive text. The research methodology used was a quasi-experimental design. The population was the students of the Eighth grade consisted of 330 students. There were eleventh classes and the researcher chose two classes of them as the sample, they were VIII 11 as experimental class and VIII 10 as control class. The instrument was a writing form for pre- test and post-test were used to collect the data. Pre-test was conducted to measure the students’ descriptive text writing ability before the treatment and post-test was conducted to find out students’ descriptive writing ability after the treatment. The data was analyzed by using SPSS. After giving the post-test, the data was analyzed by using independent sample t-test. It was found that the result of Sig (P value) = 0.000 < α = 0.05. In conclusion, Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. Therefore, there was an influence using think pair share technique towards students’ writing ability in descriptive text. Keywords: Writing Ability, Think Pair Share Technique, Quasi Experimental Design

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