Think-Pair-Share Technique for Improving Students' Writing at the Eleventh Grade

Abstract

This research aimed to find out whether there is a significant difference in students’ writing achievement after the implementation of Think-Pair-Share technique and to know the students’ perception toward the implementation of the technique. One group pretest and posttest design and one-shot case study design were the approaches of this research. The instruments were writing tests and questionnaire. The result shows that there is a significant difference in students writing achievement on analytical exposition text after the implementation of Think-Pair-Share technique. The evidence can be seen from the result of analysis where the significant value is .000, the comparison between t-value and t-table (9.696>2.034), and the mean of the score in pretest and posttest which increase 9.4 points. Furthermore, the results of the investigation on students’ perception were also found that the students had a positive perception since the gained percentage is 80,22%.