“The Use of Think Pair Share Technique in Improving Students’ Speaking Ability at The First Year students of MAN Kajai Pasaman Barat ”

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CAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.    Background of the Problem

English is one of international language; it was used by people in the world to communication. This course is very important to be acquired by students in other to be able to communicate with others peoples in the world, reserve the knowledge coming from foreign countries, and to complete in promoting science. Language is as a mean of communication between the members of the society and language can be seen many aspects such culture, knowledge, religious and in society, economic system (Oktavianus, 2006:9). Mastery of language makes people easy to socialize with many other people and also get a job.

In many countries, English is learned for many purposes such for getting a job, communication, developing technology and so on. Especially for communication, English can be used for written or spoken communication. To be able to write communication reader needs to understand the message sent by the author in written text such as letter, book, etc. Unfortunately many languages’ learners find difficulties to get ability in speaking, they fail in understanding or grasping information from the other people said, although they had learned it in their school.  

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Teaching learning activity is viewed as work of a system, which process input and procedures output. Input means the curriculum, the teacher, the student and output means the learning outcomes, namely knowledge (cognitive) skill (psychomotor) and attitude (affective), it means that someone who has learned in the three aspects above, can change his/her life from unable to be able, from not understand to understand and from impolite to be polite.

There are two types of communication that can be applied while someone communicate with other. In other word, communication can be performed in oral and written. In general, however, in sharing information or expressing the message to another people tends to use oral spoken language. It means speaking is considered by the easiest way to communication.

In Indonesia, English is a first foreign language that taught in secondary school. English must be studied by the students at junior high school, senior high school until university. As a foreign language, English not only for students’ academic aspect to get good mark but also for communication tool in work world after school.

In learning English, there are four integrated skills that the student learns, those are listening, speaking, reading and writing, and beside that the students also learn the structure or grammar of English. According to Lado (1961: 240) stated that speaking ability is describe as the ability to express oneself in life situation or the ability to report acts or situation precise words, or the ability to converse or to express a sequence of idea fluency.

In speaking activity, students feel shy and lazy to speak because they have low abilities and motivation in speaking. There are many reasons why students feel shy and lazy to speak in English class. First, when the learner tries to speak, they are afraid of making mistake in vocabulary and grammar. Second, the students do not have motivation to speak, the motivation come from teacher as motivator and from students itself. Third is students opportunities in speaking, in actually when teaching teacher only give attention to students with high ability so the middle and the low ability have no opportunities to speak. Finally, they embarrassed to speak because they environment or social life do not support them.