Improving Students' Speaking Skill by Using the Cooperative Learning Method through Think Pair Share (TPS) at SMK Negeri 4 Halmahera Tengah

This research is conducted to find out the students’ speaking skill by using cooperative learning
method through think pair share ( TPS). Based on the observation and interview was conducted by
the researcher to SMK NEGERI 4 Halmahera Tengah, however, some problems were still found in
the students’ abilities in English, especialy in speaking. The students’ speaking skills were relativelly
low. They had difficulties in expressing ideas opinions orally as they were afraid of making mistakes
and not confident to speak English. They still had difficuties in pronouncing certain English words.
To be able to speak, instead of pronunciation, the richness of vocabulary was also important. In this
research, the researcher use classroom action research ( CAR ). The Setting was SMK N 4
Halmahera Tengah and the subjects were all students of class XI of SMK N 4 Halmahera
Tengah in the academic year 2018/ 2019 with total of 20 students. To collect the data, the
researcher used observation and test. This study applied the quantitative and qualitative data. The
quantitative data was used to analyze the score of students while the qualitative data was used to
describe the situation during on the teaching process. Based on the results of the students'
speaking skills in the first cycle showed that out of 20 students of class XI SMK N 4
Halmahera Tengah. just 7 students were passed KKM while 13 students were not passed KKM.
So in the first cycle was unsuccessful and the researcher have to continue for the next cycle. The
result of the second cycle showed that 15 of 20 students of SMK N 4 Halmahera Tengah class
XI are able to passed the KKM or in other words they can achieve their speaking in the second
cycle, while 5 were not achieved the KKM value ( ≥ 75 ). It can be concluded that cooperative
learning process through think pair share ( TPS ) can improve students’ speaking skills at SMK
N 4 Halmahera Tengah.