APPLICATION OF THINK PAIR SHARE LEARNING MODEL IN LEARNING GERMAN WRITING SKILLS

Abstract

Writing is one of the language skills that must be mastered in learning German. There are several things that students often need to improve in writing, including their lack of vocabulary, grammar, articles, spelling and punctuation, and their ability to make sentences. This is due to students' limited access to discuss and express ideas and opinions with other students in German writing. Therefore, students' abilities and knowledge need to be trained by applying the Think Pair Share learning model. The purpose of this research is to find out: 1) Students' German writing skills before the application of the Think Pair Share learning model; 2) Students' German writing skills after the application of the Think Pair Share learning model; 3) the difference between students' German writing skills before and after the application of the Think Pair Share learning model; and 4) The effectiveness of the Think Pair Share learning model application in learning German writing skills. The method used in this research is a quasi-experiment with the Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The population in this research are all 12th graders of SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung with research samples, namely students of class XII IPS 3 as the experiment group and XII IPS 5 as the control group. The instruments in this research are the German writing test and the learning lesson plans. The results showed that: 1) Students' German writing skills before applying the Think Pair Share learning model were in the "Less than satisfactory" category. 2) Students' German writing skills after applying the Think Pair Share learning model were included in the "Excellent" category. 3) There is a significant difference between students' German writing skills before and after applying the Think Pair Share learning model. 4) The application of the Think Pair Share learning model is effective in learning German writing skills. Therefore, Think Pair Share can be an alternative learning model for German writing skills.

Keywords: Writing skill, Think Pair Share learning model, online learning.