Improving Students’ Speaking Skill of Narrative Texts By Using Think Pair Share Technique at Grade XII IPA 3 Of SMAN 1 Kerinci

The students’ achievement of SMAN 1 Kerinci in speaking was unsatisfactory, the students’ score were under the minimum achievement criteria (KKM). Therefore, the researcher conducted a research by using TPS technique to solve this problem. The purposes of this research were to find out whether TPS technique can improve the students’ speaking skill on narrative text at grade XII IPA 3 of SMAN 1 Kerinci and find out what factors influenced the improvement of students’ speaking skill on narrative text through this TPS technique. This research was classroom action research. The research was conducted in two cycles. In conducting the research, the researcher was helped by a collaborator in doing plan, action, observation, and reflection. Besides that, the researcher used speaking test, observation sheet, field notes, and interview as instruments in this research. The data gotten in this research were quantitative data and qualitative data. The quantitative data were analyzed to find out the improvement of students’ score in speaking skill and the improvement of students’ score for each indicator of speaking skill on narrative text. The qualitative data were analyzed to find out the factors that influenced those improvements. The finding of this research shows that through the use TPS technique, the teacher’s activities, the students’ activities and the students’ speaking skill on narrative text improves significantly. It is seemed on increasing the students’ mean score after cycle 1 and cycle 2. Those improvements are influenced by several factors. The factors were material used, motivation, materials, classroom activities, and classroom management. In conclusion, the implementation of TPS technique in teaching speaking of narrative text can improve students’ speaking skill on narrative text at grade XII IPA 3 of SMAN 1 Kerinci.