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1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
I choose the topic “The Use of Think-Pair-Share Strategy to Improve Students’ Speaking Ability” for the following reasons:
1 Speaking is one of the four skills which has to be mastered by Senior High School students in order to communicate effectively, especially in the
classroom so that they can understand what their teacher says easily. As a matter of fact, they often get difficulties in learning speaking.
2 The students of SMA N 1 Karangkobar are difficult to speak in front of the class by themselves directly. It is proved by the data from the examination
in the last semester. 3 In order to solve this main problem, small group discussion will be a more
significant way to be applied in teaching speaking for the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Karangkobar in the academic year of 20102011.
4 Think-Pair-Share strategy has not been used by English teachers of SMA N I Karangkobar yet.
According to the statements above, a conclusion can be drawn here is that those all are the reasons why this topic is chosen. It is expected that this study
will be very useful for those who are related to this study.
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1.3 Statement of the Problem
Through this study, I would like to present the following problem that will be discussed in this research: Would the use of think-pair-share strategy during
teaching and learning process improve the students’ speaking ability?
1.4 Objective of the Study
The objective of the study can be stated as follows: to identify the effectiveness of using think-pair-share as a technique in improving students’ speaking ability.
1.5 Statement of the Hypothesis
In conducting the experiment of think-pair-share strategy, a working hypothesis is proposed: “Think-pair-share strategy will be a more significant way to help
students improve their speaking ability measured by score”. Besides, the null hypothesis is also proposed since the hypothesis will
be statistically analyzed based on the result of the experiment: “There will be no significant difference in speaking class using think-pair-share strategy and using
the conventional method”.
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1.6 Significance of the Study