AHMAD, NURAHWANA (2022) Improving Paragraph Writing Skill of the Students of SMA Negeri 3 Parepare Through Think-Pair-Share Technique (Action Research). Masters thesis, IAIN PAREPARE.

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Abstract

The Think-Pair-Share technique is a type of cooperative learning designed to influence student interaction patterns in classroom learning. Therefore, this method is effective for creating variations in the atmosphere of active, innovative, creative, fun class discussion patterns assuming the nature of recitation or discussion, and can solve students' English problems, especially writing skills at school. The purpose of this research is to improve the paragraph writing skills of students at SMA Negeri 3 Parepare through Think-Pair-Share Technique The subject of this research was X.MIPA, students at SMA Negeri 3 Parepare in the academic year 2021/2022 and consists of 30 students. The design of this research was classroom action research and uses the Think-Pair-Share technique. This research was divided into two cycles consisting of several stages, namely planning, implementing actions, observing and reflecting. In Cycle I and Cycle II were carried out using the Think-Pair-Share technique where students were divided into pairs into several small groups consisting of 4 students in one group. The instruments of this research are observation, interviews, documentation and tests. The used test was a writing test where students were asked to write a narrative essay based on the title given. In the action stage, researchers used the Think-Pair-Share technique in the teaching and learning process. Moreover, there were several student problems found at the observation stage. Therefore, the researcher corrected it at the reflection stage. The research results showed that cycle 1 and cycle II were carried out in three meetings. In cycle I, researchers collected information based on the results of interviews with students, were 46.67% of students answered that they liked English, only 20% valued English and 53.33% could write in English. This means that students' writing skills in cycle I were still very bad. In cycle II, in general the actions in this cycle were not much different from cycle I. The differences were the improvement in writing skills, especially in vocabulary, mastery and text structure. Based on the results, the activity aspect observed reached 86.66% or had good participation, 90% of students were in the good category and 10% of students got very good scores. This shows that using the Think-Pair-Share technique can improve students' paragraph writing skills.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Improving, Students' Paragraph Writing Skills, Think-Pair-Share technique
Subjects: 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Divisions: Pascasarjana > Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: irwandi Mahasiswa ppl
Date Deposited: 04 Oct 2024 01:42
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2024 01:42
URI: https://repository.iainpare.ac.id/id/eprint/8656

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