USING TPS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS WRITING AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA

Annisa Oktaviani, Patuan Raja, Muhammad Sukirlan

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah ada peningkatan kemampuan menulis siswa setelah belajar menggunakan TPS. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Sasaran penelitian ini sebanyak 30 siswa kelas satu di SMAN 14 Bandar Lampung. Test menulis digunakan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Hasil menunjukan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan secara statistik pada pencapaian kemampuan menulis siswa dengan tingkat signifikansi p<0.05 (p=0.00). Dapat disarankan bahwa pengajaran menulis menggunakan tehnik TPS membantu siswa untuk meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam menulis.

The aim of this study was to find out whether there was an improvement of students writing skill after the implementation TPS. This research was quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 30 students at the first grade of SMAN 14 Bandar Lampung. The writing test was administrated as the instrument of this research. The result showed that there was a statistically siqnificant difference of the students writing skill with the siqnificant level p<0.05 (p=0.00). This suggests that writing through TPS facilitates students to improve their writing skill.

Keywords : think pair share technique, writing skill, recount text


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