IMPROVING STUDENT’S SPEAKING ABILITY IN CONVEYING INTERPERSONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL SPEECH USING THIN-PAIRS-SHARE STRATEGY FOR THE FIFTH YEAR OF SD MUH.

Abstract
GUNAWAN, BENI (2010)

This research aimed at describing the implementation, clarifying the effectiveness, and describing the student’s response taught by using think-pairs-share. The data of this research were the field note, interview script, the lesson plan, the score of pre-test and post test. The data are taken from the informants, the event, and the documents. The technique of analyzing data were organizing, summarizing, and interpreting which proposed by Ary, Lucy, and Asghar (2002). In organizing all of the data the writer written down in readable form and then the data are categorized. In summarizing all of the data the writer examined the same code and the categories were merged into pattern by finding the connection among the categories. In interpreting, the researcher elaborated the important finding and what could be learned from it. The result of the research shows that, firstly the implementation was conducted in three cycles and there was improvement of student’s speaking ability in each cycle. Secondly, teaching speaking was effective. It was indicated by the improvement of the average score of student’s speaking ability after the researcher gave the action in pre-test 51,42% and past-test 63,97%. And the third, the student’s response after being taught by using think-pairs-share was good. It was indicated by the improvement of motivation the students in speaking activities.