Improving Students’ English Writing Through Think-Pair-Share (An Experimental Study at English Department of UIN Ar-Raniry)

This research is aimed to find out whether Think-Pair-Share can improve students’ English writing at second grade students of English Department of UIN ArRaniry. The design of this study was pre-experimental design. The population of this study was the second grade students of English Department of UIN Ar-Raniry which consist of 214 students. Besides, the sample of this study was the students of unit 5 who are consisting of 20 students. The sample choosed by using purposive sampling. Thus, the data collection in this study was collected through test. The writer used statistical formula to analyze the data. The result of the research showed that there was improvement of students’ writing where the mean score of pre-test was 63,8 and the post-test was 82,5. The score proved that the mean scores of post-tests were higher than pre-tests. This also indicated that the teaching by using Think-Pair-Share can be applied as one of techniques to improve students’ English writing.