AN ANALYSIS OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODEL THINK PAIR SHARE TO TRAIN STUDENTS WRITING SKILL AT MTS SABILIL KHOIR PORONG

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penerapan model pembelajaran kooperatif Think Pair Share untuk melatih keterampilan menulis siswa di MTs Sabilil Khoir Porong dan respon siswa. Penelitian ini hanya berfokus pada keterampilan menulis siswa khususnya materi teks deskriptif di kelas sembilan semester dua. Penelitian ini menggunakan deskriptif kualitatif sebagai desain penelitian. Data diperoleh dengan observasi dan kuesioner. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan Think Pair Share dapat melatih keterampilan menulis siswa pada teks deskriptif pada siswa kelas sembilan MTs Sabilil Khoir Porong tahun ajaran 2022/2023. Implementasi Think Pair Share berhasil karena siswa menjadi lebih aktif dalam berdiskusi tentang menulis teks deskriptif dengan pasangannya berdasarkan langkah-langkah Think Pair Share menurut Teori Kagan. Hasil lembar angket menunjukkan bahwa siswa setuju model pembelajaran kooperatif Think Pair Share menarik dan dapat membantu mereka dalam melatih menulis teks deskriptif.
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The aims of this research are to describe the implementation of cooperative learning model Think Pair Share to train student’s writing skill at MTs Sabilil Khoir Porong and the student’s response. This research focuses only on students writing skill especially descriptive text material in ninth
grade second semester. This research uses descriptive qualitative as the research design. The data were obtained by observation and questionnaire. The result of the research showed that the use of Think Pair Share can train student’s writing skill on descriptive text at the ninth-grade students of MTs Sabilil Khoir Porong in the academic year 2022/2023. The implementation of Think Pair Share was successfully because students become more active in discussion about writing descriptive text with their pairs based on the Think Pair Share steps by Kagan’s Theory. The result of questionnaire sheet show that students agree about cooperative learning model Think Pair Share is interesting and can help them to train writing descriptive text.