Improving Students\u27 Speaking Skills Through Think-pair-share Technique

Abstract

Think-pair-share technique is a cooperative technique which is used to teach in the classroom with emphasized on activities students done at each of the stages. The purpose of this research was to describe how TPS technique improve students\u27 speaking skill on the Eleventh grade students AP1 (Akomodasi Perhotelan) of SMKN 5 Pontianak. This research used classroom action research as the research design. The sample of this research were 28 students of Eleventh grade, Akomodasi Perhotelan class. There was improvement in each cycle after applying TPS technique in the classroom. The students\u27 achievement in the first cycle was categorized as poor to average and students\u27 achievement in the second and third cycle were categorized as average to good. The improvement also can be seen by the activeness of students\u27 involvement in the speaking activities while teaching learning process. TPS technique can be used by the teacher as alternative to improve students\u27 speaking skill